Hi Lance, You need to escape the double-quote in the string assigned to the "newimage" object also, consider using "toUpperCase() as follows...
if(file.toUpperCase().endsWith(".HTML")) { newimage="<img src=\"/images/icon_ie.gif\">"; } Best Regards! Mike Cronin -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lance Prais Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:24 AM 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