'identifier' & 'illegal start of type' messages???

[James Brooks]

Hi all!

Can someone please tell me why I'm getting 'illegal start of type' and '<identifier> expected' error messaged for the for-loop and the last message dialog for the below code:

Thanks!

-Patrick

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
public class Main
{
    double principal = 1000.0, rate = 5.0;
 
    string yrs = JOptionPane.inputMessageDialog(null, "Enter the number of years to save", "Number of years", 
            JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
    int years = Integer.parseInt(yrs);
 
    for(int i = 0; i < years; i++)
    {
        principal *= (1+rate/100);
    }
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You will have " + " dollars after " + yrs + " years")
}

[pete stein]

I think that you are putting code in the class block {} when you really need to put it in a method block.

Something like this:

public class Main
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        double principal = 1000.0, rate = 5.0;
        String yrs = JOptionPane........ // note that String is capitalized
        ............
        ............
        ............
 

    }
}

[ April 08, 2007: Message edited by: pete stein ]

[James Brooks]

Oops, yeah, silly mistake... Thanks!