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Enyang Mercy
Courses Plus Student 2,339 PointsLocal Devt Enviroment Messy Code
Help !!! i have been stuck for days now. Task 1~4 run properly except 5 Error:./Messy.java:1: error: cannot find symbol import java.util; ^ symbol: class util location: package java ./Messy.java:13: error: cannot find symbol List numberWords = Arrays.asList("six", "seven", "eight", "nine"); ^ symbol: class List location: class Messy 2 errors
import java.util.*;
import java.util.Arrays;
public class Messy {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("one");
System.out.println("two");
System.out.println("three");
System.out.println("four");
System.out.println("five");
// Please comment out this line and
// this line as well with a hotkey that does multi-line commenting
List<String> numberWords = Arrays.asList("six", "seven", "eight", "nine");
for (String numberWord : numberWords) {
System.out.println(numberWord);
// Use the sout shortcut to write out numberWord;
}
}
}
"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\bin\java" "-javaagent:C:\Windows\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2017.3.5\lib\idea_rt.jar=55080:C:\Windows\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2017.3.5\bin" -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\charsets.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\deploy.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\access-bridge-64.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\cldrdata.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\dnsns.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\jaccess.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\jfxrt.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\localedata.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\nashorn.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\sunec.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\sunjce_provider.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\sunmscapi.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\sunpkcs11.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\ext\zipfs.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\javaws.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\jce.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\jfr.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\jfxswt.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\jsse.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\management-agent.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\plugin.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\resources.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\jre\lib\rt.jar;C:\Users\USER\IdeaProjects\Messy\out\production\Messy" Messy
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
Process finished with exit code 0
3 Answers
Steve Hunter
57,712 PointsHi there,
I think it wants you to import the List class specifically, so change * to List.
I hope that helps,
Steve.
Enyang Mercy
Courses Plus Student 2,339 PointsIt worked! Thanks STEVE
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Wajid Mohammed
5,698 PointsHi Enyang, I have a similar problem with the same Exercise and I am not able to go beyond the step of this Messy java code challenge. The task 1 says to copy the code to a new project Messy file in IDE and so I did that copying the code from challenge and then the task says to "Check Work" .. Now where do we check this work. I can see the wrong bits in the code but it wont let me go ahead to fix it and complete challenge. Can you please help? Thanks.