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Java

Arrays and Command Line Arguments

public class Hangman {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Enter amazing code here:
  if (args.length == 0)
    System.out.println("Please enter a word");
    System.exit(0);
}
  Game game = new Game(args[0]);
  Prompter prompter = new Prompter(game);
  prompter.play();
} 

Hangman.java:11: error: <identifier> expected
prompter.play();
^
1 error

2 Answers

You forgot the opening curly brace on your if statement, which causes the closing brace to be interpreted as the end of the method instead of the if statement.

  if (args.length == 0) { // <- add this brace here
    System.out.println("Please enter a word");
    System.exit(0);
}

It looks like its looking for another keyword in front of prompter.play