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Java Java Basics Using your New Tools Multiple Format Strings

Why do I keep getting an error when I try to compile this?

I'm new to Treehouse and every time I have gotten to one of programs that I write myself I keep getting errors when I try to compile at the console.printf part

Multiple.java
// I've imported java.io.Console for you.  It is stored in a variable called console for you.
String name = console.readLine ("");
String pastTenseVerb= console.readLine ("");
console.printf =("name really pastTenseVerb this coding exercise.");

1 Answer

Kourosh Raeen
Kourosh Raeen
23,733 Points

Hi Thomas - You have an equal sign after printf() that shouldn't be there. So change

console.printf =("name really pastTenseVerb this coding exercise.");

to

console.printf ("name really pastTenseVerb this coding exercise.");