Semi Colon Expected Help

Question

G'day,
I'm a complete newby to java and programming in general. I'm trying to recreate a simple game of change wherein variables are reduced by random numbers between 0 and 1. But that's beside the point.
I have been recieving the "; expected error for the line *int battle(int war);* (down the bottom). Why?
{code}import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Random;
public class UnifiedDomination
private Random rng = new Random(); // Our random number generator
private Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); // Our keyboard reader
private int australianTerritory1Armies = 4;
private int australianTerritory2Armies = 2;
private int australianTerritory3Armies = 2;
private int australianTerritory4Armies = 1;
private int africanTerritory1Armies = 3;
private int africanTerritory2Armies = 2;
private int africanTerritory3Armies = 3;
private int africanTerritory4Armies = 2;
int battle1, battle2;
int myRandonNumber = rng.nextInt(2);
private String australianPlayerName; // Name of Australian player
private String africanPlayerName; // Name of African player
public UnifiedDomination();
System.out.print("Enter name of player for Australia: ");
australianPlayerName = input.nextLine();
System.out.print("Enter name of player for Africa: ");
africanPlayerName = input.nextLine();
System.out.println();
System.out.print("Australia has: " + australianTerritory1Armies + "armies.");
System.out.println(australianPlayerName + "'s Australian Territory 1 fights " + africanPlayerName + "'s African Territory 3");
int battle(int war);
{ return war - rng.nextInt(2); }{code}
Thanks for any help in advance.
Edited by: Gears on Apr 2, 2008 4:32 AM

Answer 1

There are two major mistakes in your code, at least on the first glance:
public UnifiedDomination();. You cannot put a semi-colon after the declaration of a method (unless it is abstract) or after a constructor.
int battle(int war);
        {   return war - rng.nextInt(2);    } Same thing plus you cannot declare methods inside other methods.