Thread: My compiler says there's something wrong with 2 statements

It so happens that my compiler is telling me there is something wrong with the 2 bottom statements of this do-while loop, just above the while-part.

My ideas for solving this are to either eliminate the statements or just know what is wrong with the statements themselves by recognizing their nature, but I somehow can't find what each nature is.

Here are their relevant error-messages:

 

ReadNEditFile.java:67: error: not a statement

               String continue = keys.nextLine();

               ^

ReadNEditFile.java:67: error: ';' expected

               String continue = keys.nextLine();

                     ^

ReadNEditFile.java:67: error: ';' expected

               String continue = keys.nextLine();

                              ^

ReadNEditFile.java:68: error: illegal start of expression

               char editOrNot = continue.charAt(0);

                                ^

ReadNEditFile.java:68: error: illegal start of expression

               char editOrNot = continue.charAt(0);

                                        ^

ReadNEditFile.java:68: error: ';' expected

               char editOrNot = continue.charAt(0);

                                               ^

6 errors

This thread also comes with the problematic-code:

          do
          {
               // Get the entry-number that the user wants to edit.
               System.out.println("What is the number you want to add onto the account list");
               System.out.println("starting with account-0?");
               userNum = keys.nextInt();
 
               // Now find it to show it to the user.
               byteNum = ENTRY_SIZE * userNum;
               readNEdit.seek(byteNum);
               numFound = readNEdit.readDouble();
               System.out.println(numFound);
 
               // Now replace the entry with the user's new-number.
               System.out.println();
               System.out.println("What do you want to write over this entry?");
               newNum = keys.nextDouble();
               readNEdit.seek(byteNum);
               readNEdit.writeDouble(newNum);
 
               // Ask the user if he/she wants to continue this.
               System.out.println("Do you want to continue editing?");
               String continue = keys.nextLine();
               char editOrNot = continue.charAt(0);
 
          }while (editOrNot == 'y');

How do I correct this if the compiler seems to point out errors that aren't there?

Hi,
Can you please your source code once? May be there are extra characters typed before the line 67 and they are not visible in the screenshot you gave.
Using Home and End keys check every line if there are extra characters hidden somewhere.

Thanks,
Syed.

'continue' is a reserved Java keyword and cannot be used as a variable name.

I noticed that my compiler said nothing was wrong with my debugged program thanks to knowing continue is a keyword. Thanks for the help.