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Java Local Development Environments Exploring Your IDE Clean up this mess

Please Help!!!

Challenge: "Clean up this mess"

Messy.java
import java.util.Arrays;
        import java.util.List;

        import static java.lang.System.*;

public class Messy {
    public   static void main(String[]      args){
        out.println("five");
        out.println("one");
        out.println("six");
        out.println( "four"       );     out.println("two");

        List<String> numberWords = Arrays.asList("six", "seven", "eight", "nine");
        for (String numberWord: out.println(numberWords) {
            // Use the sout shortcut to write out numberWord;
        }
    }}
results.txt
Error:(17, 57) java: ')' expected
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import static java.lang.System.out;

public class Messy {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        out.println("one");
        out.println("two");
        out.println("three");
        out.println("four");
        out.println("five");

        List<String> numberWords = Arrays.asList("six", "seven", "eight", "nine");
        for (String numberWord : out.println(numberWords) {
            // Use the sout shortcut to write out numberWord;
        }
    }
}

3 Answers

Your code should look like this when you are done:

import java.util.*;

public class Messy {

    public static void main(String[] args){
       System.out.println("one");
       System.out.println("five");
       System.out.println("six");
       System.out.println("four");     
       System.out.println("two");
       //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) {
         System.out.println(numberWord);
         // Use the sout shortcut to write out numberWord;
       }
    }
}

I believe that the challenge wants you to use a multi-line comment for the two comments:

/*
  *Please comment out this line and 
  *this line as well with a hotkey that does multi-line commenting
*/
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

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) {
            System.out.println(numberWord);
            // Use the sout shortcut to write out numberWord;
        }
    }
}

Finally got it, thank you Jeremy!!!

Good deal! You're welcome :)