How am i getting an illegal start of expression error?

Question

Hi,
i am new to this forumn, and still fairly new to java i gues. i get an illegal start of expression in the following code at the line...
data [arrayCounter] = {fn,ln,hp,ha,hc,hs,hz};
any ideas as to why?
    public class customersDatabase {
        String[] columnNames = new String[10];
        private Object[][] theData = new Object[1000][10];
        public customersDatabase() {
        String[] employeeNameArray = new String[10];
        String retrieveString = "SELECT * FROM customerTable";
        Statement stmt;
        try {
            Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
        } catch(java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {
            System.err.print("ClassNotFoundException: ");
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        try {
            con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, null, null);
            stmt = con.createStatement();
            ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(retrieveString);
            int arrayCounter = 0;
            while (rs.next()) {
                String fn = rs.getString("FIRSTNAME");
                String ln = rs.getString("LASTNAME");
                String hp = rs.getString("HOMEPHONE");
                String ha = rs.getString("HOMEADDRESS");
                String hc = rs.getString("HOMECITY");
                String hs = rs.getString("HOMESTATE");
                String hz = rs.getString("HOMEZIP");
                data [arrayCounter] = {fn,ln,hp,ha,hc,hs,hz};
                System.out.println(fn+ln+hp+ha+hc+hs+hz);
                arrayCounter ++;
            stmt.close();
            con.close();
        } catch(SQLException ex) {
            System.err.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
    }

Answer 1

Change it to:
data [arrayCounter] = new String[] {fn,ln,hp,ha,hc,hs,hz};(or new Object[], but I don't know why your array is declared as Object[][], anyway, if you only put Strings in it.
You can only use the initialization you used when first declaring the variable.
Also, "data" should be "theData", I think.