Re: Cannot find symbol variable number?

From:
"Jeff Higgins" <oohiggins@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:52:54 -0400
Message-ID:
<qy3Jj.3$YK1.0@newsfe07.lga>
KyoGaSuki wrote:

By the way...sorry for how messy it looks. If you have trouble reading
it, I can clean it up and repost?


Oh, no problem buddy. Shoot, I can do that for ya.

/**
 * @(#)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);
    // All I want it to do is to
    // print the number that I
    // input from the method.
    System.out.println(getNumber(num));
  }

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

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