Error problems

Hello,

I am a beginning Java student. I am supposed to program a payroll program, and now I am getting two types of errors on 76 different occasions:

#1- Illegal Character\92\par
and
#2- ; expected.....However, I am including the ; in my programming. I have no idea what to do now. Can someone help? I am using JDK 1.6.0_16. I am using wordpad to create.

here is the code I have so far:

// Public class: PayrollProgram.java

// A calculation program that displays an employee's information and hourly rate.

import java.util.Scanner;

public class PayrollProgram
{
            // main method begins execution of Java application

public static void main ( String args[] )
{

// create Scanner to obtain input from command window

Scanner input = new Scanner ( System.in );

String name; // employee's name
            double number1; // hourly rate
            int number2; // number of hours worked for the week
            double product; // product of number1 and number2

System.out.print( "Enter employee's name: " ) ; // prompt user to input name
            
            name = input.nextLine(); //read employee's name from user's input

System.out.print( "Enter hourly rate: " ); // prompt user for employee's hourly rate
            
            number1 =  input.nextDouble(); // read hourly rate from user's input

System.out.print( "Enter hours worked for the week: " ); // prompt user to enter number of hours worked for the week

number2 = input.nextInt();  // read number of weeks from user's input

product = number1 * number2;  // multiply numbers

System.out.printf( "The Employee " + name ) ; // displays employee's name
            
            System.out.printf( "weekly pay is $" + product ) ; // displays weekly pay

}

// end method main

}

// end class PayrollProgram

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putting together all those snippets, it compiled and ran OK fo me.

Michael Dunn wrote:putting together all those snippets, it compiled and ran OK fo me.

My command prompt just comes up with 76 errors. Most are illegal character\92\par

a few says ; expected

What do I do?

If someone could tell me how to copy and paste the command prompt on this, I will show you

Michael Dunn wrote:putting together all those snippets, it compiled and ran OK fo me.

These are the errors I am getting:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Ti
mes New Roman;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
^
PayrollProgram.java:1: illegal character: \92
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Ti
mes New Roman;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
^
PayrollProgram.java:1: illegal character: \92
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Ti
mes New Roman;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
^
PayrollProgram.java:1: illegal character: \92
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Ti
mes New Roman;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
^
PayrollProgram.java:1: illegal character: \92
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Ti
mes New Roman;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
^
^
PayrollProgram.java:1: class, interface, or enum expected
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Ti
mes New Roman;}{\f1\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}

^
^
^
PayrollProgram.java:2: class, interface, or enum expected
{\colortbl ;\red0\green0\blue0;\red38\green90\blue255;}
^

Make sure that you tell WordPad to save the file as a text file -- or better yet, use a text editor instead. The java compiler seems to be choking on the formatting data -- as you seemed to have saved the program in some sort of rich text format.

Henry

You have got to be kidding me! I changed it to plain text, and bingo!

What is the difference?

Kevin Quarles wrote:What is the difference?

One is a text file. The other isn't.... This is why you should use a real text editor, instead of a word processor wannabe.

Henry

You can refer examples from www.java2examples.com for help

when you saved the document originally, the editor put in all the formatting characters...i.e. bold, centered, fonts, etc. when your editor displays the document, it doesn't display them, it uses them to figure out HOW to display it.

When you save your file as plain text, you're saying "only save the actual characters I type", so that extra stuff isn't in there.