Thread: Unreachable statement problem

I have been working on the following for hours only to get unreachable code for line 44 return (sum);. Need some fresh eyes asap please.

package evenFibonaccisum;
 
import java.io.*;
import java.math.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.regex.*;
 
public class Sum {
    static int sumEvenFib(int start, int end) {
        int fn1 = start; //fn_1
        int fn2 = getNextTerm(start); //fn_2
        int fn = 0; //current term
        int sum = fn1 + fn2; //holds sum of even terms
            while (fn<=end) {
                fn=fn1+fn2;
                fn1=fn2;
                fn2=fn;
                   if(fn>=end){
                       break ;
                    }
                   else{
 
                       if(fn%2==0){
 
                           sum=sum+fn;
                        }
                    }
            }
 
        int getNextTerm; 
        int x = 0; {
            int a=0;
            int b=1;
            int fib=1;
            for(int i=0; i<=x; i++){ 
                fib=a+b;  
                a=b;  
                b=fib;        
            }
            return (fib);  
        } 
 
      return (sum);
    }
 
private static int getNextTerm(int start) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return 0;
	}
 
private static final Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
 
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(System.getenv("OUTPUT_PATH")));
 
    int start = scanner.nextInt();
    scanner.skip("(\r\n|[\n\r\u2028\u2029\u0085])*"); 
 
    int end = scanner.nextInt();
    scanner.skip("(\r\n|[\n\r\u2028\u2029\u0085])*");
 
    int res = sumEvenFib(start, end);
 
    bufferedWriter.write(String.valueOf(res));
    bufferedWriter.newLine();
 
    bufferedWriter.close();
 
    scanner.close();
 
    }
   }

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I've done it this time for you.

There is a useless pair of {}s in the code starting at this line:

int x = 0; {

Remove that { and its pairing } and you will see two return statements immediately next to each other.
The second return statement is unreachable code

How do I correct for this unreachable code

Remove one of the return statements so there is only one. For example:

   return val1;
   return val2;    // this statement unreachable

Removing one of the above return statements so that there is only one return statement will remove the unreachable error.