Thread: Confused

I don't understand why this won't work? thank you.

 
public void duck(){
		String yellow = "eric";
		System.out.println("" + yellow);
	}

public class Wamidh {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
	}
public void duck(){
		String yellow = "eric";
		System.out.println("" + yellow);
	}

it won't say eric when I click run

I am meant to call my function? how do I do this?

thank you for your reply.

oh, thank you but what do I write to call my function duck?

Have you tried:

public class Wamidh {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    duck(); //<---
  }
 
  public void duck(){
    String yellow = "eric";
    System.out.println("" + yellow);
  }
}

I tried that out but then it said cannot make static reference to non-static method duck() from the type Wamidh.
Then I changed the duck function to static and then it worked!
I don't know if it's right but at least it works now.

public class Wamidh {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
	duck();
 
	}
 
	public static void duck(){
		String yellow = "eric";
		System.out.println("" + yellow);
	}

In all fairness, all i did was copy your 2nd post and replace // TODO Auto-generated method stub with duck();
I didn't even look at anything else. Good on you figuring out static. =)

okay, thank you.