chris x barrett

any ideas?

ok thanks .. i didn't have an ide at my dispolal at the time .. i will get that... hopfully it will make it easyer....... but in the file i am trying to take a user input "accountname" and create a file named "accountname" and i try to do that by String s = directory + accountName + userEnd; currentuser = new FileInput(directory + accountName + userEnd);
the directory is my home directory don't know if that matters... but when i run my program it runs fine untill these lines and then crashes... that is what it isn't sapposed to do ...

i want to check and see if there is a file with a certian name and i don't know how ...i don't want to read from the file just want to know the name of the file.

thank you

i am still can't find/figure out why i keep getting that error though.
[ December 20, 2005: Message edited by: chris barrett ]

that isn't saposed to be a smile. i didn't use the code button.

ok now i am saposed to upgrade the code to ask for a userinput as well and use ArrayList to make my life easyer but again i get a compile problem not with the extended for loop anymore though now the error is

setLocationCells(java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.String> ;) in DotCom cannot be applied to (int[])

[ December 20, 2005: Message edited by: chris barrett ]
[ December 20, 2005: Message edited by: chris barrett ]

ok i figured out the problem .. it was the compiler that i was using wasn't using java 5. it was using an older version so when i tryed it in bluej it compiles and runs. before i was using Jcreator and i don't know how to (or if you can) change the version of java it compiles with. But original problem fixed

This is the class that gives me the error
errors are

';' expected on line 17
illegal start of expression on line 31
illegal start of expression on line 32


1public class SimpleDotCom
2{
3int[] locationCells;
4int numOfHits = 0;
5
6public void setLocationCells(int[] locs)
7{
8locationCells = locs;
9}
10
11public String checkYourself(String stringGuess)
12{
13int guess = Integer.parseInt(stringGuess);
14String result = "miss";
15//int cell = 0;
16for (int cell : locationCells) // i = 0; i < 7; i ++)
17{
18if (guess == cell)
19{
20result = "hit";
21numOfHits++;
22//cell++;
23break;
24}
25}
26if (numOfHits == locationCells.length)
27{
28result = "kill";
29}
30System.out.println(result);
31return result;
32}
33}

i checked that too to make sure and i have java 1.5

my compiler won't compile this for loop

for (int cell : locationCells)

it says that the colon should be a semicolon... i am using a book to do this program and that is what it calls for and i know there are for loops as such

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

i can't figure out what the problem it ��??