Re: cannot find symbol

From:
"Amfur Kilnem" <dor5redf7ts@kjgwaghjie.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:04:10 GMT
Message-ID:
<uwt3g.71469$Jd.30396@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>
"fybar" <fybar27@google.mail.figureitout> wrote in message
news:1u2mp2igwo8c3.194i4b6n8ht0j.dlg@40tude.net...

New to java. I have a snippet of code that I can compile fine on a
FreeBSD
box running 1.1.4, or something similar:

FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream(f);
InputStreamReader sirLine;
BufferedReader fileInput;
sirLine = new InputStreamReader(fs);
fileInput = new BufferedReader(sirLine);
while ( j <= 53 ) {
fileline = fileInput.readLine();

I just installed NetBeans 5.0 on WinXP as my FreeBSD box isn't portable.
I
loaded the source files and now I get an error for the first line that
says:

unreported excpeption java.io.FileNotFoundException; must be caught or
declared to be thrown

I get the same error for the last line. Ok, not sure what that meant so I
googled and came up with this:

       try{
FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream(f);
       }
       catch(FileNotFoundException fnfE){
           System.err.println("File not found!");
       }
InputStreamReader sirLine;
BufferedReader fileInput;
sirLine = new InputStreamReader(fs);
fileInput = new BufferedReader(sirLine);
while ( j <= 53 ) {
fileline = fileInput.readLine();

Ok, that made the original error go away and I think I understand why.
Seems like NetBeans is tying to make me write fault tolerant code, jerk.
However I have a new error that I don't understand. The sirLine = new...
line gives me:

cannot find symbol
symbol : variable fs
location: class hockey_pool.Main

I have googled for this and cannot find what this means. I thought that
it
meant that I have not defined a variable, but I have in the line in the
try{}. So, what am I missing here?

Thanks,

fybar


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