cannot find symbol...class ParseException

[john price]

MaskFormatter formatter = null;
	try {
	formatter = new MaskFormatter("#########");
	}
	catch (ParseException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
	}

Error message:

C:\Users\cc11rocks\Documents\JavaCrap\RiskApp>javac Risk.java
Risk.java:33: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class ParseException
location: class Risk
        catch (ParseException e) {
               ^
1 error

[Ulf Dittmer]

Apparently there's no import statement for that class.

[john price]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:Apparently there's no import statement for that class.

Thank you very much. I'm new to MaskFormatting so I didn't know.
Thanks,
cc11rocks

[Abhishek A Kumar]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:Apparently there's no import statement for that class.

Hi,
Please use the import statement below:

import java.text.ParseException; -

Hope it helps

Thanks
Abhishek

[Habeeb Shaikh]

Hi,
We always need to remember that we are using interfaces of JAVA. We need to import required library except "lang" because it is default imported library.
It's a principle thing and IDE is also shows error message before compile. Hope so this information we be beneficial for you future.