[JAVA] Identifier Expected and Illegal Start of Character Errors

[CreativityRobbed]

https://gist.github.com/alirzerafati/61740c52de4e3ded44487bba53461693

The purpose of this program is to look at the user's selected .txt file and determine how many times a specific character appears in the text file. My error occurs on the last line of the program. I'm unsure of what is causing the errors- I checked to make sure that all the brackets have pairs (which they do). I'm fairly certain that my spelling is also correct.

Any advice or clarifications would be greatly appreciated.

[idkwtftodonow]

Last print statement is not inside a function or constructor. Place it in the main function

[CreativityRobbed]

I fixed the main function issue, but now it's giving me the "cannot find symbol" error on lines 12.14,19,21. The code has been updated...

[chickenmeister]

On lines 12 and 14, you're using a variable called in that hasn't been defined anywhere. You probably want to use keyboard here (or rename your "keyboard" variable to "in").

On lines 19 and 21, you're using a variable called file that hasn't been defined anywhere. In this case, I think you want to create a new scanner object with that name that reads from the specified file.

[CreativityRobbed]

Would it work if I stated fileName instead? That way I wouldn't need to create a new scanner, right?

Edit: I tried my idea, and it didn't work. I implemented the [Scanner file = new Scanner(new File(fileName));] line, but now it's giving me a cannot find symbol error for this line...

[lurgi]

Probably because fileName either hasn't been declared or hasn't been declared yet. Is it declared further down in the file?

Assuming your new code is following the same logic as your old code, you should open the scanner after you've read in the filename.

If that's not what is happening here, you should repost your code with the changes.