Java Help - writing a method..

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writing a method..

Frances

2005-08-24, 7:00 pm

I have read about methods until I'm blue in the face..

yet every time I try to write my own method from scratch I get "illegal
start of expression" error no matter how I declare it..

public String myMehtod() {
private String myMethod() {
String myMethod () { // on this one says I need ';' at
// end of this line....????

this is a method that simply processes a string... (I have 'return
<StringVar>' at the end..

this is very frustrating.. would appreciate some help, pls.. thank you..

Frances

2005-08-24, 7:00 pm

Frances wrote:
> I have read about methods until I'm blue in the face..
>
> yet every time I try to write my own method from scratch I get "illegal
> start of expression" error no matter how I declare it..
>
> public String myMehtod() {
> private String myMethod() {
> String myMethod () { // on this one says I need ';' at
> // end of this line....????
>
> this is a method that simply processes a string... (I have 'return
> <StringVar>' at the end..
>
> this is very frustrating.. would appreciate some help, pls.. thank you..

class MyClass{
public String myMethod(){
String answer = "Hello World";
return answer;
}
}

Is this wat you mean?
Maybe you can start with a java tutorial like the ones on
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html

Just follow the creation of a program step by step...

T.

Monique Y. Mudama

2005-08-24, 7:00 pm

On 2005-08-24, Frances penned:
> I have read about methods until I'm blue in the face..
>
> yet every time I try to write my own method from scratch I get "illegal
> start of expression" error no matter how I declare it..
>
> public String myMehtod() {
> private String myMethod() {
> String myMethod () { // on this one says I need ';' at
> // end of this line....????
>
> this is a method that simply processes a string... (I have 'return
><StringVar>' at the end..
>
> this is very frustrating.. would appreciate some help, pls.. thank you..
>
> Frances

Is the method inside a class?

public class Foo
{
public String myMethod()
{
return "Foo";
}
}

--
monique

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Frances

2005-08-24, 7:00 pm

T. wrote:
> Frances wrote:
>
>
>
> class MyClass{
>
> String answer = "Hello World";
> return answer;
> }
> }
>
> Is this wat you mean?

yes, this is what I mean.. thank you.. I HAVE read up on methods, among
others (MANY others...)
http://scv.bu.edu/Doc/Java/tutorial...OO/methods.html

this is for an applet.. I had this method inside init() method, I took
it out of there, now it's just inside applet class... I declare class,
I declare vars, I declare the method.. this is a method that will do
nothing more than process an e-mail address to convert it to something
else.. I need to pass a string to the method.. but string I need to pass
is a var, not a literal.. so can I do..

public String myMethod(String sUid){

then in method call pass var that will be drawn from a getParameter()
method (pulling param from html that calls applet..):

sUid = getParameter("uid");

this var I need to pass to method and process...

thank you very much..

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