I have searched SO for this, and have seen some similar questions, but not this question specifically (that I could find, anyway).
I am receiving a curly-brace / semicolon error on the lines before and after these two statements. They are members of the class (not within a class method). When I remove the array assignment line (second line), the curly-brace / semicolon error goes away. I'm dumbfounded, but know there is a simple answer to this.
public class Test {
private int var1 = 1;
// These are the troublesome lines
public String[] name = new String[10];
name[0] = "Mary"; // When I remove this line, both the errors go away
public int var2 = 10;
}
The error(s) in Eclipse (Juno) that I am getting are:
Syntax error on token ";", { expected after this token
...on the error placed on the "var1" line, and:
Syntax error, insert "}" to complete Block
...on the "var2" line.
What am I doing wrong? I have tried different variances, like:
(String) name[0] = "Mary";
...and so on.
The problem is that this statement:
name[0] = "Mary";
isn't in a method, or a constructor, or an instance initializer. Only declarations (and initializers) can be at the top level of a class - not statements.
I suggest you put it in a constructor.
public Test() {
names[0] = "Mary";
}