Illegal start of expression

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Hi,

Im using netbeans and i keep getting a illegal start of exspression error alert ive made the line red:confused:

heres surrounding code;

[COLOR=“Blue”]public class Main {

 public static void main(String[] args) {

private final static String[] mainMenuOpts = {“Students”,“Lecturers”,“Admin”,“Exit”};
private final static String studentMenuOpts = {“Add Student”,“List all Students”,“Find a Student”,“Return to Main Menu”};
private Menu mainMenu = new Menu(“MAIN MENU”,mainMenuOpts);
private Menu studentMenu = new Menu(“STUDENT MENU”,studentMenuOpts);
private DataStore data = new DataStore();
private java.io.PrintStream out = System.out;
private ReadKb reader = new ReadKb();
/** Creates a new instance of Main */
public Main() {
run();
}[/COLOR]

2

public method cannot have private variables.

Remove “private” as modifier.

Also is this the Full code? because i see more Syntactical errors like defining constructor in main method “public Main()”

3

More correctly: a method variable may have no modifier other than final.

4

Your class should look like more the following to be valid Java code:

public class Main {

private final static String[] mainMenuOpts = {"Students","Lecturers","Admin","Exit"};

private final static String[] studentMenuOpts = {"Add Student","List all Students","Find a Student","Return to Main Menu"};
private Menu mainMenu = new Menu("MAIN MENU",mainMenuOpts);
private Menu studentMenu = new Menu("STUDENT MENU",studentMenuOpts);
private DataStore data = new DataStore();
private java.io.PrintStream out = System.out;
private ReadKb reader = new ReadKb();

public Main() { 
   run();
}

public void run(){
//do something in here when object is created
}

/** Creates a new instance of Main */
public static void main(String[] args) {
  Main myMain = new Main();
}


}