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    <p>These are my questions:</p> <ol> <li><p>I'm getting a couple of errors on the line "public static boolean validNumCheck(String num){" - "illegal start of expression", "';' expected", and "')' expected".</p></li> <li><p>How can I give the user 3 tries in total for each number? I believe right now the programme asks the user for 3 numbers and gives them 3 tries in total to get the numbers correct (My explanations suck... read the code to get a better idea of what I mean).</p></li> </ol> <p>This is my code:</p> <pre><code>import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class Assignment3 { public static void main (String[] args){ final int MAX_TRIES = 3; int[] attempts= new int[2]; String[] getNumber= new String [2]; //Ask the user for 3 integers. while(attempts[0]&lt;MAX_TRIES){ getNumber[0]= JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Please enter an integer between 0-200."); //Pass the value to validNumChek validNumCheck (getNumber); //If it is not a valid number give the user 3 more tries. if (getNumber== false){ while(attempts[1]&lt;MAX_TRIES){ getNumber[1]= JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Please enter an integer between 0-200."); attempts[1]++;} } attempts[0]++; } //Parse the string to an integer and check if it is a valid number. public static boolean validNumCheck(String num){ int number; try { number = Integer.parseInt(num); return number &gt;= 0 &amp;&amp; number &lt;= 200; }catch(NumberFormatException e){ //If it is not a valid number return false. return false; } } } </code></pre>
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    1. COOkay I'm trying this stuff out right now, I'll be back with some hopefully better code.
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    3. COillegal start of expression line 27 illegal start of expression line 27 ';' expected line 27 ')' expected line 27 illegal start of expression line 27 ';' expected line 27
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