Originally Posted by fowlergod09

I have removed the brackets and get the following errors:
cannot find symbol variable length
Thanks anyway.
G

Originally Posted by fowlergod09

Hi i am very new to java and have come across this problem in my code. Will someone please explain to me why i am getting a null point exception and what one is? I have tried to find out what it means but i cannot find an explanation anywhere.
Thank you

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class Main { 
 
    String s;
 
    void initializeStuff() {
        String s = "aaa";
    }
 
    void displayStuff() {
        System.out.print("The length of '"+s+"' is: ");
        System.out.print(s.length());
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Main main = new Main();
        main.initializeStuff();
        main.displayStuff();
    }
}

class Main { String s; void initializeStuff() { String s = "aaa"; } void displayStuff() { System.out.print("The length of '"+s+"' is: "); System.out.print(s.length()); } public static void main(String[] args) { Main main = new Main(); main.initializeStuff(); main.displayStuff(); } }