; expected

[andrew cassato]

i am working on Selection Sort and I have a method which is returning the error "; expected" when the ; is there so I am not sure what I am doing wrong but creating this fraction is not working...

private void selectionSort()
    {
        int minIndex=0,i=0,smallestIndex=0,
        Fraction temp = new Fraction();
        Fraction f = new Fraction();
        for(i = 0; i < A.length - 1; i++)
        {
            smallestIndex = i;
            for(minIndex = i+1; minIndex < n; minIndex++)
            {
                if(f.compare(A[minIndex],A[smallestIndex])=0)
                {
                    smallestIndex = minIndex;
                    temp = A[smallestIndex];
                    list[i] = temp;
                }
            }
        }
     }

the error is on line 4 and 5, same problem.

thanks in advance

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

You have a comma(,) at the end of line 3. Is it a typo? It would be better if you can provide the complete code.

[Henry Wong]

andrew cassato wrote:
the error is on line 4 and 5, same problem.

Yea, sometimes these types of errors are caused by errors from previous lines. If the lines look okay, it's recommended to look a few lines back.

Henry

[andrew cassato]

Mohamed Sanaulla wrote:You have a comma(,) at the end of line 3. Is it a typo? It would be better if you can provide the complete code.

do'h. yea i took a variable out and forgot to remove the comma... weird that the error happens later.
thanks for your help

[Bear Bibeault]

andrew cassato wrote:weird that the error happens later.

Not at all. The line ending with the comma is perfectly valid -- it could be continued with more comma-separated declarations on the next line. It's not until after that line that parser can possibly detect that something's gone awry.

[andrew cassato]

thanks for clearing that up