Cannot find symbol variable number?

From:
KyoGaSuki <jrockgadaisukidayou@yahoo.co.jp>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 3 Apr 2008 04:25:21 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<752dfaad-5272-4864-ac54-8b5ef70360f6@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
I was just trying out a simplified version of a reply from a previous
post, attempting to call a method...but it keeps coming up with the
error message "Cannot find symbol variable number". Can anyone help?

/**
 * @(#)try2.java
 *
 * try2 application
 *
 * @author Kasumi
 * @version 1.00 2008/4/3
 * Attempting to finally and sucessfully CALL a method...and...I still
prove unsucessful...
 */
 import java.util.*;

public class try2 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
     System.out.println(getNumber(num)); // All I want it to do is to
print the number that I
     // input from the method.
     }

    public static int getNumber(){
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); // It told me it couldn't
find the scanner, so
                                                // I put it here and the error message went away.
     System.out.print("Enter an integer: ");
     int number = input.nextInt(); // Could this be the problem? I
don't know any other way to
     // make the user input a variable, though.
     return number; // ...please return?
    }
}

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cannot find symbol variable num

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