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my code broken ... need some help

when ever i add the

String[] anewone ={
"stuff"'
};

my fact and randomNumber are considered as an unknown class how do i fix it and i am getting this error Error:(42, 17) error: <identifier> expected

here my code

                String [] anewone = {
                        "Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.",
                        "Ostriches can run faster than horses.",
                        "Olympic gold medals are actually made mostly of silver.",
                        "You are born with 300 bones; by the time you are an adult you will have 206.",
                        "It takes about 8 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Earth.",
                        "Some bamboo plants can grow almost a meter in just one day.",
                        "The state of Florida is bigger than England.",
                        "Some penguins can leap 2-3 meters out of the water.",
                        "On average, it takes 66 days to form a new habit.",
                        "Mammoths still walked the earth when the Great Pyramid was being built." };
                };
                String fact = "";
                Random Randomgenerator = new Random();
                int randomNumber = Randomgenerator.nextInt(anewone.length);
                fact = anewone[randomNumber];
                textView.setText(fact);
            }
        };

2 Answers

Have you tried declaring your array, which is a member variable, as public? You may have some scope issues there - it is hard to tell without seeing all the code.

I can't immediately see anything else that could cause a problem with the code. Give that a try and let me know if it worked.

Steve.

The curly braces look strange to me. The one after the textView.setText() line closes the class, presumably? What's the next one with a semi-colon doing?

Can you post the whole file, please?

its fixed thanks i accidentally added two }} after listing the values in the string

So you did! Sorry - I should've spotted that.

Glad you're up and running!

Steve.