Error reading from input file?

[Tom Brodhead]

I'm trying to open a text file for input using the Eclipse IDE and I'm receiving error messages I can't resolve. Here's my code:

import java.io.*;
public class BarChart {
	
	String file = "C:\\2-Java\\P-2.1\\GettysburgAddress.txt";
	
	try {
		FileReader fr = new FileReader(file);
		BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
	} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
		Stdout.line("File not found: " + file);
	}
	
}

Eclipse flags the "String file" line as an error with the following message:

Syntax error on token ";", { expected after this token

It also flags the final } with this message:

Syntax error, insert "}" to complete ClassBody

What am I doing wrong here?

TIA!
~~Tom

[Tom Reilly]

You cannot just add code to a class. You have to put the code in a method. Also, Stdout is not Java. See below.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;

public class BarChart
{
    public static void main(String...args)
    {
        String fileName = "C:\\2-Java\\P-2.1\\GettysburgAddress.txt";
        try {
            FileReader fr = new FileReader(fileName);
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
            
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e)
        {
            System.out.println("File not found: " + fileName);
        }
    }
}

[Tom Brodhead]

Thanks--this was an embarrassing brain fart--forgot to put it into a method. I'm actually planning on calling the resulting method from a class with a main() method elsewhere; the Stdout routine is part of the larger package this belongs to.