Thread: Illegal start

Hi all,

Does anyone know why i keep getting illegal start of type when i type System.out.println("The Largest Number is " + maxValue(numbers));
when i put // infront of it as a comment it compiles fine although i do not get the output.

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.Arrays;
 
 
public class arrayNum
{
 
       public static void main (String args[]) throws IOException{
 
 
                Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
                int array[] = new int[5];
                int count=0;
                int numbers;
 
 
 
 				System.out.println("Please enter 5 numbers");
 
 
                {
                while (count < 5)
                {
				//the input you get must be store in the array
				array[count] = input.nextInt();
						count++;
 
 
                }
				}
																}
 
				System.out.println("The Largest Number is " + maxValue(numbers));
 
                	public static int getmaxValue(int[] numbers)
            	{
						int maxValue = numbers[1];
						for(int i=1;i<numbers.length;i++)
						{
							if(numbers[i] < maxValue)
							{
								maxValue = numbers[i];
						}
							}
						return maxValue;
				}
 
 
 
 
 
 
			//	int max = array[5];
		//		for(int i = 1; i < 5; i++)
		//		 {
		//		 if(array[i] > max)
		//		 {
 		//		 max = array[i];
		//		 }
		//		 }
				// print the value instead of printing
 
 
			//	return max;
}

Your help is greatly appreciated!

package javaapplication1;
 
 
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.Arrays;
 
 
 
class Main
{
 
 
 
       public static void main (String args[]) throws IOException
       {
 
 
                Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
                int array[] = new int[5];
                int count=0;
                int numbers;
 
 
 
 				System.out.println("Please enter 5 numbers");
 
 
                {
                while (count < 5)
                {
				//the input you get must be store in the array
				array[count] = input.nextInt();
						count++;
 
 
                }
                System.out.println("The Largest Number is " + getmaxValue(array));
				}
																}
 
 
 
                	public static int getmaxValue(int[] numbers)
            	{
						int maxValue = numbers[0];
						for(int i=1;i<numbers.length;i++)
						{
							if(numbers[i] > maxValue)
							{
								maxValue = numbers[i];
						}
							}
						return maxValue;
				}
 
 
 
 
 
 
			//	int max = array[5];
		//		for(int i = 1; i < 5; i++)
		//		 {
		//		 if(array[i] > max)
		//		 {
 		//		 max = array[i];
		//		 }
		//		 }
				// print the value instead of printing
 
 
			//	return max;
}

You should have to import the pakage of javaapplication1 and also your statement was written outside the main().Also, your getmaxvalue() was not for maximum but for minimum and you took the first index of array as the max value as you should have to take the zero index in the beginning. Well, its ok now. Enjoy.