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Ello,

Sorry, I just found the solution to my original question; I have a second question regarding the static keyword



Will my functions always have to be declared as static inside this class to work with main?
 
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Travis Roberts wrote:Will my functions always have to be declared as static inside this class to work with main?


Yes, unless you create an instance of the object. For example, suppose you write One one = new One(); one.myMethod().

Then myMethod() doesn't need to be static.
 
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Travis Roberts wrote:Will my functions always have to be declared as static inside this class



No,you can create non-static method in your class.Then create object of this class in main method,So that you can use this newly created object to call non-static method from main.
ex. objectreferencevaraible.YourMethod();
 
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Irfan Jamadar, welcome to the Ranch
 
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It is often a serious mistake to mark things static “because it seems to work like that” or to correct a compiler error. Please search this forum and the Java in General forum, because there have been several discussions about static and not static. I am not sure when, maybe about 1 month ago.
 
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Though your question is already answered that you need to create an object of the class, in order to avoid static.
I am curious to know, what you are trying to do with , this code
 
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