start type

[chris barr]

i have a problem with my for loop and i get the error message "illegal start of type"

ArrayList AdvanceTickets = new ArrayList();
for (int i = 0; i < AdvanceTickets.size; i++)
{

[Keith Lynn]

size is a method.

[chris barr]

right thanks ... um ... what is the import for ArrayList?.. forgot to import it.

[marc weber]

Originally posted by chris barr:
... um ... what is the import for ArrayList?.. forgot to import it.

If you refer to the API documentation, and click on "ArrayList" in the lower left frame (under "All Classes"), you will see it is in java.util.

[chris barr]

thanks... ok imported ArrayList but that wasn't the problem.

code/

class Advance extends Ticket
{
int TotaladvPrice = 0;
int advPrice = 0;
int Days = 11;
ArrayList AdvanceTickets = new ArrayList();
(1)for (int i = 0; i < AdvanceTickets.size(); i++)
{
if (Days > 10)
{
advPrice(30);
}

if (Days < 10 && Days > 0)
{
advPrice = 40;
}
}
}(2)

/code

i have tried every that i can think of about for loops and i still get the error "illegal start of type"(1) and "<identifier> expected" (2) for the last curly brace i haven't really tried to fix that one yet though

[Jesper de Jong]

You have to put your code in a method. You can't put statements like the for()-loop in a class declaration.

[Layne Lund]

In this case, you probably want to create a constructor to do this initialization.

[marc weber]

You might think of it this way: Classes have variables representing what they are (their "state") and methods for what they do.

So when you're describing something a class does, it needs to be inside a method.

(Constructors can be thought of as a special kind of method that gets an object ready for use.)