Can a custom made method be used within a If condition in Java?

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At the below I am using two methods to have as the results of If Else statement. But it gives me several errors that I cannot correct. Please solve my problem? My Java Version is Java SE 6.0.

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01 
02     public class If_Else{
03
04        public static void main (String[] args){
05            int x = 5;
06            int y = 5;
07
08            public void ResultOk(){
09
10             System.out.println("Good!");
11
12            }
13
14
15            public void ResultBad(){
16
17             System.out.println("Bad!");
18
19            }
20
21            if(x==y) {
22
23            ResultOk();
24
25            }else{
26
27            ResultBad();
28
29            }
30        }
31    }

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If_Else.java:8: illegal start of expression
                        public void ResultOk(){
                        ^
If_Else.java:21: illegal start of type
                        if(x==y) {
                        ^
If_Else.java:21: <identifier> expected
                        if(x==y) {
                            ^
If_Else.java:21: <identifier> expected
                        if(x==y) {
                               ^
If_Else.java:25: illegal start of type
                        }else{
                         ^
If_Else.java:31: class, interface, or enum expected
        }
        ^

Please try to solve my problem?

Thanks.

Posted 19-Aug-11 8:08am

Chiranthaka Sampath

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-19T09:13:00

Solution 1

You have put your ResultOk() and ResultBad() methods inside your main() method, which is illegal. Move them outside of the end of main().

Posted 19-Aug-11 9:13am

Richard MacCutchan

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Chiranthaka Sampath 23-Aug-11 5:00am

After fixing that problem I got the following error!

If_Else.java:8: non-static method ResultOk() cannot be referenced from a static
context
ResultOk();
^
If_Else.java:12: non-static method ResultBad() cannot be referenced from a stati
c context
ResultBad();

Please try to solve this too Thanks a lot!

Richard MacCutchan 23-Aug-11 5:58am

These are instance methods and must be called through an instance of your class. I would suggest you go back to your Java reference and learn about classes, objects, methods etc.