static? public?

[Thumper872]

I'm trying to mess around with this program and cannot seem to get the declarations right with the BoyerMoore constructor. Can someone help me?

Error: Cannot resolve symbol: method BoyerMoore() ...

import java.io.*;

public class BoyerMoore {

  public static final int ALPHABET_SIZE = Character.MAX_VALUE + 1;

  private static String text;
  private static String pattern;

  private int[] last;
  private int[] match;
  private int[] suffix;

  public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
    DataInputStream f;
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

    if (args.length == 0) // Read graph from standard input
    {
      System.out.println("Please include file in run parameters!");
      f = new DataInputStream(System.in);
    }
    else
    { // Data file entered as parameter
      f = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(args[0]));
    }

    text = f.readLine();

    pattern = in.readLine();

    BoyerMoore(pattern, text);  /* Error is here */
  }


  public BoyerMoore(String pattern, String text) {
    this.text = text;
    this.pattern = pattern;
    last = new int[ALPHABET_SIZE];
    match = new int[pattern.length()];
    suffix = new int[pattern.length()];
  }

  /*  other
        classes

        . . . 

  */
}

[mikeBarr81]

Your constructor is fine, the problem is in how you're attempting to create a new object (the line you've highlighted in red). You've written it using the syntax that you would use to call a method, so the compiler thinks that is what you're trying to do. There is no method with that name, so it complains.

To create the object you need to declare the type of object you're creating, and give it a name.

BoyerMoore boyerM = new BoyerMoore(string1, string2);

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[petert17]

Well Mike barr is absolutely right
besides your methode seem to be non static method
so it can't be used in static context
As mikebarr putt
you need to creat a new object that would embody the mothed it then work fine good like

[Thumper872]

Thanks you guys. That worked! I need to learn java a lot more...