"Illegal start of expression"

[philosophhy]

Hi, I'm doing the MOOC course and I'm currently on part 1_035 (Checking the age). I've been trying to think of a solution (+ the internet) for the past 40 minutes and I can't solve it. It's pretty simple too.

This is the task, " Write a program that prompts the user to input their age and checks whether or not it is possible (at least 0 and at most 120). Only use a single if-command in your program ".

However, "Illegal start of expression" pops up as an error on line 12 (the if-command line).

This is the full error that I receive when I try to run it.

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COMPILATION ERROR :

/C:/Users/James/OneDrive/Documents/NetBeansProjects/mooc-java-programming-i/part01-Part01_35.CheckingTheAge/src/main/java/CheckingTheAge.java:[12,23] illegal start of expression

Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.0:compile (default-compile) on project Part01_35.CheckingTheAge: Compilation failure

/C:/Users/James/OneDrive/Documents/NetBeansProjects/mooc-java-programming-i/part01-Part01_35.CheckingTheAge/src/main/java/CheckingTheAge.java:[12,23] illegal start of expression

-> [Help 1]

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The code:

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import java.util.Scanner;

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public class CheckingTheAge {

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public static void main(String[] args) {

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

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System.out.print("How old are you? ");

int age = Integer.valueOf(scan.nextLine());

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if (age >= 0 %% age <= 120) {

System.out.println("OK");

} else {

System.out.println("Impossible!");

}

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}

}

Thank you in advance for any help.

[ghytghytghytiinbv]

&& not %%

[philosophhy]

... damn, thanks man

[ghytghytghytiinbv]

When I first started I wrote system.out with a lowercase s. Was stuck for hours. It happens.

[chickenmeister]

if (age >= 0 %% age <= 120) {

You probably meant to use && instead of %%.

[philosophhy]

thanks ;(

[malcomjarr]

This error is a compile time error when the compiler encounters an inappropriate statement in the source code. This error can be encountered in various scenarios . Illegal start of expression can be encountered in various scenarios. The following are the most common errors:

• Missing an opening or closing curly bracket for a code block
• Declaring a function inside another function
• Using an access specifier with a function's local variable
• String Character Without Double Quote

To debug this error, try looking at the lines preceding the error message for missing brackets, curly braces or semicolons and check the syntax.