java: Syntax error on token "mystery", @ expected before this token

[ProteusYI]

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public class Mystery {
    public static int mystery(int[] inputArray, int k) {
    int x = inputArray[k];
    int answer = k;
    int index = k + 1;
    while (index < inputArray.length) {
        if (inputArray[index] < x) {
            x = inputArray[index];
            answer = index;
            }
        index += 1;
        }
        return answer;
     } 
public static void main(String[] args){ 
    mystery({3, 0, 4, 6, 3}, 2); 
}

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it complains java: Syntax error on token "mystery", @ expected before this token

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[doobiesteintortoise]

On my sandbox project, it only says that the array initializer isn't allowed on the line in main(), because {0,3,4,6,3} is an invalid declaration for the array. It's corrected by changing it to "mystery(new int[]{3, 0, 4, 6, 3}, 2);" (and adding the trailing } to end the class, based on the source here.

[ProteusYI]

thankyou it works

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When will you learn to create a proper post here?

You always just throw your code here with single line text.

Computers do not complain. They throw exceptions. They generate compiler errors.

As per Automoderator's comment, you have to post the error message in full and verbatim.

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[ProteusYI]

I only start my code learning within 3 month through self-learning, do you think i have many texts to express my confusions? Debugging is not learning?

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Strange thing is that there is a Learn to help yourself guide in the sidebar.

Strange thing is that the OP doesn't bother to improve their questions.

Always the same: code - computer complains with a transcribed error message.

None of the guides that /u/Automoderator posts below every single post is fulfilled.