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Re: Compile error in For Loop

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Ewing)
Mon Jan 29 00:28:02 1996

Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:53:45 +1100
From: grege@optimation.com.au (Greg Ewing)
To: FAHF89A@prodigy.com
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com

> From NewsGroup_comp-lang-java Fri Jan 26 22:43 EST 1996
> From: NewsGroup_comp-lang-java
> >From: FAHF89A@prodigy.com (Julie Tanjaroen)
> Subject: Compile error in For Loop
> Date: 25 Jan 1996 18:34:37 GMT
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> Hi,
> I realize this is probably a very simple question, but I can't get past 
> this error. When I compile this code, I get an error which says
>  " Java expected a ")" in place of the first semi-colon in the For loop, 
> meaning (counter = 0) instead of (counter = 0; etc...
> This is my code:
> 
> class AppForLoop {
>     public static void main (String args[]) {
> 	                int counter;
> 	                For (counter = 0; counter < arg.length; counter++)
> 	                                    System.out.println(args[counter]);
>    	                }
> }
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
> 
> Thanks, Julie...
> 
> 		
> 
> 
> 


Julie,

Case sensitivity is important in Java. Try `for' instead of `For'. The compiler 
is treating your `For' as a classname.

GREG

grege@optimation.com.au
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