Question

I get an error that says ” expected”. It is in this section of the code I get it here (*****).

Why do i get this? im a beginner and am stuck on this issue and would like to know how i can solve this. why do i get a identifier expected error where i have *. what does that mean ad how can i resolve this? thankssss

/**
* TicketMachine models a ticket machine that issues
* flat-fare tickets.
* The price of a ticket is specified via the constructor.
* Instances will check to ensure that a user only enters
* sensible amounts of money, and will only print a ticket
* if enough money has been input.
*/
public class TicketMachine
{
// The price of a ticket from this machine.
private int price;
// The amount of money entered by a customer so far.
private int balance;
// The total amount of money collected by this machine.
private int total;

/**
* Create a machine that issues tickets of the given price.
*/
public TicketMachine(int cost)
{
if (cost > 0) 
{
price = cost;
balance = 0;
total = 0;
}
else
{ 
System.out.println("can not be minus");
}
}

/**
* @Return The price of a ticket.
*/
public int getPrice()
{
return price;
}

/**
* Return The amount of money already inserted for the
* next ticket.
*/
public int getBalance()
{
return balance;
}

/**
* Receive an amount of money from a customer.
* Check that the amount is sensible.
*/
public void insertMoney(int amount)
{
if(amount > 0) {
balance = balance + amount;
}
else {
System.out.println("Use a positive amount rather than: " +
amount);
}
}

/**
* Print a ticket if enough money has been inserted, and
* reduce the current balance by the ticket price. Print
* an error message if more money is required.
*/
public void printTicket()
{
if(balance >= price) {
// Simulate the printing of a ticket.
System.out.println("##################")…
System.out.println("# The BlueJ Line");
System.out.println("# Ticket");
System.out.println("# " + price + " cents.");
System.out.println("##################")…
System.out.println();

// Update the total collected with the price.
total = total + price;
// Reduce the balance by the prince.
balance = balance - price;
}
else {
System.out.println("You must insert at least: " +
(price - balance) + " more cents.");

}
}

/**
* Exercise printtickettwo
*/
public void printTicketTwo();
int amountLeftToPay;
amountLeftToPay (***********) = price - balance;

if (amountLeftToPay > 0) 
{
// Simulate the printing of a ticket.
System.out.println("##################")…
System.out.println("# The BlueJ Line");
System.out.println("# Ticket ");
System.out.println("# " + price + " cents.");
System.out.println("##################")…
System.out.println();
}
else
{
System.out.println.("Amount Still Required);
} 
}

/**
* Return the money in the balance.
* The balance is cleared.
*/
public int refundBalance()
{
int amountToRefund;
amountToRefund=balance;
balance = 0;
return amountToRefund;
}

/**
* Exercise empty machine money
*/ 
public int emptyMachine()
{
int emptyMachine;
emptyMachine = total;
total = 0;
return total;
}

}

Answer 1

This line public void printTicketTwo();

Instead needs to be

public void printTicketTwo() { *method body* }

Edit – generally debugging advice; When you get an error like this there is generally a line number if you have an error or errors find the smallest line number and look at the code there. Often times the syntax error is in a line above the on mentioned for example if you have int myInt = 5 and int mySecondInt = 7; on the following line the error will likely reference the second line even though it was caused by omitting a semi colon on the line before.