So I'm coming back to Java after a long time of not working with it. First method of my first class and I'm seeing an error I've never seen before.
For every System.out.println() statement I have, the .out. part throws this error: cannot find symbol symbol: variable out location: class System
my class is unfinished but looks like this
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class System{
//Variables
char map[];
/*
Functions
FILE INPUT
*/
public static void ReadFile(){
FileInputStream fstream;
try{
fstream = new FileInputStream("C:\\Users\\James\\Documents\\NetBeansProjects\\Assignment1\\src\\testfiles");
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fstream));
String strLine;
System.out.println("Your Input File");
System.out.println("****************");
//Read File Line By Line
while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null)
{
// Print the content on the console
System.out.println(strLine);
inputArray.add(strLine);
}
System.out.println("****************");
//Close the input stream
br.close();
System.out.println();
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Every single .out. in this block of code throws this error :cannot find symbol symbol: variable out location: class System
I am using Netbeans8.0.2 and java 1.7.0_76(because I have to)
Can someone shed some light on this?
This is the problem:
public class System
You're creating your own class called System
, so when you later use:
System.out.println
that's looking in your System
class rather than java.lang.System
.
Options:
java.lang
, precisely for this reasonFully-qualify the call:
java.lang.System.out.println(...);
I'd pick the former option, personally.
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