IO filestream help

Question

hi all
im currently learning basic io classes via the java tutorials i tried to write my own version of the copybyte program (http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/examples/CopyBytes.java)
but im having some problems understanding what did i do wrong here:
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
class NewClass{
public static void main(String[] args)
  FileInputStream input = null;
  FileOutputStream output = null;
  int c;
try{
  input= new FileInputStream("xo.rtf");
  output= new FileOutputStream("byte.txt");
while((c = input.read())!= -1)
   {output.write(c);
catch(FileNotFoundException filee)
{System.out.println("file not found: " + filee);
catch(IOException exc)
{System.err.println("IO exception caught: " + exc);
finally
   if(input!=null)
     {System.out.println("closing file input stream.");
   try{input.close();}
   catch(IOException e){System.err.println("input closing IO err: "+e);}
    else {System.out.println("file input stream allready closed.");}
   if(output!=null)
    {System.out.println("closing file output stream.");
     try{output.close();}
     catch(IOException e){System.err.println("output closing IO err: "+e);}
   else {System.out.println("uotput stream allready closed.");}
}when i try to compile it i get these errors
ByteCopy.java:3: illegal start of type
import java.io.FileInputStream
^
ByteCopy.java:3: <identifier> expected
import java.io.FileInputStream
                              ^
ByteCopy.java:4: <identifier> expected
import java.io.FileOutoutStream
                               ^
ByteCopy.java:5: <identifier> expected
import java.io.IOException
                          ^
ByteCopy.java:46: reached end of file while parsing
}&#8594;
^
5 errors

Answer 1

are you on windows or unix?
It shouldn't bother the compiler either way... but does your file have the appropriate end-of-line sequence for the operating system.... this is probably a blind ally, but it's all I can think of that might (just might) explain why the compiler is reading line 1 as line 3...
... other that that your program source code file is somehow corrupted... try copying it to the clipboard and pasting it into another file. save it under another directory as the same name, and then try compiling it.