You need to either escape the double-quote characters within the IMG tag, or use single-quotes. Java thinks newimage="<img src=" is your statement and is looking for the semicolon.
newimage="<img src='/images/icon_ie.gif'>"; Should work. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Lance Prais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Syntax error question I am getting a syntax error with the following code and not sure what the problem is: if(file.endsWith(".html") || file.endsWith(".HTML")) { newimage="<img src="/images/icon_ie.gif">"; } Error message: Unable to compile class for JSP/usr/local/netscape/server4/https-kb-dev/config/../ClassCache/_jsps/_resu lts_jsp.java:504: ';' expected. newimage=""; I am ending the line with ";" Thanks Lance ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html