[BlackFiredDragon]

I'm writing a code to represent the area of a few shapes using object and class.... Anyway, this is the error I'm getting:

shapes.java:52: error: reached end of file while parsing
}
^
1 error

Here's my code:

import java.util.Scanner;

class shapes
{
	void shapes()
	{
		System.out.println("Areas of Circle, Rectangle, And Square...");
	}
}
class circle extends shapes
{
	void circle(double a, double B)/>
	{
		System.out.println("Area Of Circle:");
		System.out.println(a*b*B)/>;
	}
class rectangle extends shapes
{
	void rectangle(double a, double B)/>
	{
		System.out.println("Area Of Rectangle:");
		System.out.println(a*B)/>;
	}
class square extends shapes
{
	void square(double a)
	{
		System.out.println("Area Of Square:");
		System.out.println(a*a);
	}
}
class Stuff
{
	public static void main(String args[])
	{
		Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
		System.out.println("Circle - Enter Diameter...");
		double a = input.nextDouble();
		double b = a / 2;
		circle objc = new circle();
		objc.circle(3.14, B)/>;
		rectangle objr = new rectangle();
		System.out.println("Enter Length And Width Of Rectangle...");
		double c = input.nextDouble();
		double d = input.nextDouble();
		objr.rectangle(c, d);
		square objs = new square();
		System.out.println("Enter Length Of One Side Of Square...");
		double x = input.nextDouble();
		objs.square(x);
	}
}

Thanks for any help

[GregBrannon]

These "reached end while parsing" errors are almost always due to mismatched/missing close braces. I had to add two close braces to what you posted to match them correctly. And that doesn't mean it's right, it just means you're missing two close braces somewhere. You seem to have an odd mixture of classes and methods that you may need to untangle a bit. Indenting your code properly will help you see the mismatched brace errors more easily.

[BlackFiredDragon]

GregBrannon, on 03 August 2012 - 08:41 AM, said:

These "reached end while parsing" errors are almost always due to mismatched/missing close braces. I had to add two close braces to what you posted to match them correctly. And that doesn't mean it's right, it just means you're missing two close braces somewhere. You seem to have an odd mixture of classes and methods that you may need to untangle a bit. Indenting your code properly will help you see the mismatched brace errors more easily.

Oh, thanks about the curly braces thing, that was actually the only problem. It works perfectly now.

[jon.kiparsky]

The two missing braces should go at the end of class rectangle and class circle.

You will find it a lot easier if you go ahead and use standard coding conventions wrt capitalization. Class names start with uppercase, method names start with lowercase, both get internal capitalization.


From a class design perspective, you might want to let each Shape determine how to prompt for its dimensions, rather than writing that code in your main. Shape.queryUserForDimensions() or something like that.