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illegal start of expression

Feb 3rd, 2005

I need some help with understanding an error that I am getting. Can anyone help me. Here is my problem. I am trying to hardcode information for a mortgage calc and I am getting an illegal start of expression error. Here is an example:

MortgageLoanCalculator.java:15: illegal start of expression
double interestRate = 5.7%; // Interest Rate = 5.75%

What does it mean?

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Re: illegal start of expression

Feb 3rd, 2005

Can you post the previous few lines of the code ... the problem could be in the previous lines too ... look at them.

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Re: illegal start of expression

Feb 3rd, 2005

Sure. Here is the program.

public class MortgageLoanCalculator
{
//Main method
public static void main(String [] args)
{
double interestRate = 5.7%; int numberOfYears = 30;
double loanAmount = %200,00;

//Enter monthly interest rate
System.out.println("The interest rate is:" + interestRate);
System.out.println("The loan amount is:" + loanAmount);
System.out.println("The term in years is:" + numberOfYears);

}
}

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Re: illegal start of expression

Feb 3rd, 2005

The % is a sign for modular division in java.

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you might want to play around with the DecimalFormat class some, if you want your numbers to have commas after every three numbers and an % before or after your numbers.

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Feb 3rd, 2005

Try this out now

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public class MortgageLoanCalculator
{
//Main method
public static void main(String [] args)
{
double interestRate = 5.7; // you are defining a double value .. and % is not a double.
int numberOfYears = 30;
double loanAmount = 20000; //java doesnt recognize comas in doubles.
 
//Enter monthly interest rate
System.out.println("The interest rate is:" + interestRate);
System.out.println("The loan amount is:" + loanAmount);
System.out.println("The term in years is:" + numberOfYears);
 
}
}
public class MortgageLoanCalculator
{
//Main method
public static void main(String [] args)
{
double interestRate = 5.7; // you are defining a double value .. and % is not a double.
int numberOfYears = 30;
double loanAmount = 20000; //java doesnt recognize comas in doubles.

//Enter monthly interest rate
System.out.println("The interest rate is:" + interestRate);
System.out.println("The loan amount is:" + loanAmount);
System.out.println("The term in years is:" + numberOfYears);

}
}