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Start your free trialLuis Garcia
1,552 PointsClean up this mess
Hey there,
On the "Clean up this mess" challenge I'm copying and pasting this code (which compiles and runs correcty)
import java.util.*;
public class Messy {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("one");
System.out.println("two");
System.out.println("three");
System.out.println("four");
System.out.println("five");
/*Please comment out this line and
this line as well with a hotkey that does multi - line commenting*/
List<String> numberWords = Arrays.asList("six", "seven", "eight", "nine");
for (String numberWord : numberWords) {
// Use the sout shortcut to write out numberWord;
System.out.println(numberWord);
}
}
}
But I keep getting this error.
./Messy.java:8: error: ';' expected Please comment out this line and
I've tried doing single line comment, removing the whole lines and nothing seems to work and can't make any progress. Any tips?
Cheers, Luis
Luis Garcia
1,552 PointsHi Gregorij,
Thanks for your reply. I just tried that and keep getting the same error.
Cheers, Luis
3 Answers
Craig Dennis
Treehouse TeacherAway from my computer now, but try giving space between the star and your comments on both sides. Never seen that before...but might work.
Luis Garcia
1,552 PointsThanks Craig. It didn't make any difference. Probably this is silly, but I just can't use the multi-line comment key shortcut because my keyboard is Spanish configured. Do you think the drill can tell from that?
Cheers, Luis
Robert Ellefson
5,672 PointsWill they allow you to use // to comment out each line individually?
Luis Garcia
1,552 PointsHi Robert,
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately not. I've even introduced some other obvious syntax errors and still stuck on the same one. I wonder if there could be any bug on the Challenge app.
Cheers, Luis
Alexandru Dinu
13,633 PointsHello, You paste the code in code tab and results in the results tab?
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 PointsGrigorij Schleifer
10,365 PointsHi Luis,
I have tried your code and it runs perfect in IntellyJ. Only thing I had to change were the imports ...
The compiler was complaining about this line:
import java.util.*;
So I changed it to:
Using the alt enter command (Mac)