How to access a variable present in a scriptlet tag in some other scriptlet tag in JSP?

Question

if i do this, it says "cannot find symbol:x". Is there anyway i can access x outside that scriptlet tag?

<%
String x="abc";
%>
<%
System.out.println(x);
%>

Answer 1

You can access x by expression tag(<%= %>). You can try the following code :

<%
String x="abc";
%>
<%=x %>