Can someone please help? "illegal start of an expression"

Question

Hi, I'm new here and I've been lurking for some time. Just never really had the courage to post until today when I am desperate for help. Can someone please take a look and see why I keep getting the following error message?
MortgageCalcv4.java:60: illegal start of expression
          public static void calculateTotals(int mortgageLength, double interestRate)'
It's for an assignment in school, and I am having an impossible time figuring out why it won't compile! I'm sure it's something simple and I'm just missing it. Your help is very much appreciated. Here's the code:
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.math.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
public class MortgageCalcv4
     public static void main (String[] args)
          // declaration
          double interestamt,payment;
          int amtofloan,term;
          int[] arrayTerm = {7,15,30};
          double[] arrayInterest = {.0535,.055,.0575};
          DecimalFormat money = new DecimalFormat("$ 0.00");
          // calculations
          interestamt=.0575;
          amtofloan=200000;
          term=30;
          //for statement
          for(int y=0; y<arrayTerm.length; y++)
          calculateTotals(arrayTerm[y], arrayInterest[y]);
          //calculates the payment for the array
          payment=(amtofloan * ((arrayInterest[y]/12)/(1-Math.pow((1+(arrayInterest[y]/12)),-(arrayTerm[y] * 12)))));
          public static void calculateTotals(int mortgageLength, double interestRate)
          //2nd set of declarations
          double amtofloan = 200000.00;
          double interestamt = interestRate;
          int length = mortgageLength;
          DecimalFormat money = new DecimalFormat("$ 0.00");
          //calculations
          double payment=(amtofloan * ((interestamt/12)/(1-Math.pow((1+(interestamt/12)),-(length * 12)))));
          //displaying variables
          System.out.println("\nMortgage Payment Calculator");
          System.out.println("\nLoan total: " + (money.format(amtofloan)));
          System.out.println("Interest Rate: " + interestamt*100 + "%");
          System.out.println("Length of loan (in years)  " + term);
          System.out.println("\t\t\t----------");
          System.out.println("Your monthly payment is: "+(money.format(payment))+"\n");
          System.out.println("Your payment schedule:\n");
          System.out.println("\tPayment # \tRemaining Balance \tInterest");
          System.out.println("\t------------- \t----------------- \t-------------\n");
          //loop declaration
          int X;
          //loop calculations
          int termspread = term*12;
          int rows = 1;
          //begin loop
          for (X=1; X<=termspread; X++)
               //calculations for rows
               double interestamtpd = (amtofloan * (interestamt/12));
               amtofloan = amtofloan - (payment - interestamtpd);
               //display loop variable
               System.out.println("\t" +X + "\t\t" + money.format(amtofloan) + "\t\t" + money.format(interestamtpd));
               //if statement
               if(rows == 24 && X<termspread)
                    rows = 1;
                    //try statement
                    try
                        Thread.currentThread().sleep(3000);
                    //catch exception
                    catch (InterruptedException e)
               //else statement
               else
                    ++rows;
}

Answer 1

You seem to be missing an end curly brace for a for loop:
    for (int y = 0; y < arrayTerm.length; y++)
      calculateTotals(arrayTerm[y], arrayInterest[y]);
      // calculates the payment for the array
      payment = (amtofloan * ((arrayInterest[y] / 12) / (1 - Math.pow(
          (1 + (arrayInterest[y] / 12)), -(arrayTerm[y] * 12)))));
    }  // **** this was missingbut also I have to ask what you do with the payment information once you get it? It seems a calculation where the answer is just thrown out after it's obtained.