[dusker]

Now, I copied this code out of the text word for word because our class is just starting to learn to use these and this was an example question using In.getInt and all of those. Well, I have tried using in.getInt(); and In.getInt(); but I continually get :

Interactive.java:19: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable in
location: class interactive
String familyName = In.getString();

and it does that for all the In.get.... that I type, I really have no idea, sorry I'm really beginner at this.
^

public class Interactive
{		
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		//Obtain name and age
		System.out.println("What is your first initial?");
		char firstInitial = in.getChar();
		System.out.println("What is your family name?");
		String familyName = in.getString();
		System.out.println("What is your age in years?");
		int age = in.getInt();
		
		// respond to input
		System.out.println("Well, " + firstInitial + ". "
			+ familyName + " - "
			+ "I see that your age is " +age);
		}
}

[Jayman]

The problem is that you have not defined in, and the methods you are using are from the ByteBuffer class.

You need to define a ByteBuffer object and call it in. Also make sure you have the necassary import for the ByteBuffer class.

import java.nio.*;

//declare inside your main
ByteBuffer in = ByteBuffer.allocate(14);

Once declared the getChar and getInt methods will be valid. Not sure what class uses the getString method. But it will not work with the ByteBuffer object.

You can find the API for the ByteBuffer class here.

[Dogstopper]

Didn't mean to "-" that, but please avoid necroing super old topics like this one. Thank you.