sunrisepoet
sunrisepoet

Reputation: 107

ArrayList throwing syntax error "Unknown class"

Doing some tutorials on java this simple foreach loop on a list is giving me an error in the foreach loop: "Unknown class: familyMembers". I dont see where the problem is. but i know is something simple. Thanks in advance.

Update: I have all the imports necessary.

    List<String> familyMembers = new ArrayList<String>();

    familyMembers.add("john");
    familyMembers.add("suzy");
    familyMembers.add("smith");

    for (String name : familyMembers){
        System.out.println(name);
    }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1958

Answers (1)

it looks like familyMembers is a method-locally declared variable

the for loop must be implemented in a method where the familyMembers can be access or scope

Upvotes: 3

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