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i have a illegal start expression and i dont know how to fix it

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02-Nov-2009, 01:20 PM #1
i have a illegal start expression and i dont know how to fix it
publicclass tournament
{
publicstaticvoid main (String[] args) throws java.io.IOException
{
//Getting the name of the files to be compared.
BufferedReader br2 = new BufferedReader (new
InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.println("Enter 1st File name:");
String str = br2.readLine();
System.out.println("Enter 2nd File name:");
String str1 = br2.readLine();
String s1="";
String s2="",s3="",s4="";
String y="",z="";
//Reading the contents of the files
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (new FileReader (str));
BufferedReader br1 = new BufferedReader (new FileReader (str1));
while((z=br1.readLine())!=null)
s3+=z;
while((y=br.readLine())!=null)
s1+=y;
System.out.println ();
//String tokenizing
int numTokens = 0;
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer (s1);
String[] a = new String[10000];
for(int l=0;l<10000;l++)
{a[l]="";}
int i=0;
while (st.hasMoreTokens())
{
s2 = st.nextToken();
a[i]=s2;
i++;
numTokens++;
}
int numTokens1 = 0;
StringTokenizer st1 = new StringTokenizer (s3);
String[] b = new String[10000];
for(int k=0;k<10000;k++)
{b[k]="";}
int j=0;
while (st1.hasMoreTokens())
{
s4 = st1.nextToken();
b[j]=s4;
j++;
numTokens1++;
}
//comparing the contents of the files and printing the differences, if any.
int x=0;
for(int m=0;m;
{ <----------------------------------HERE (IT SAYS ILLEGAL START OF EXPRESSION)
if(a[m].equals(b[m])){}
else
{
x++;
System.out.println(a[m] + " — " +b[m]);
System.out.println();}
}
System.out.println("No. of differences : " + x);
if(x>0){System.out.println("Files are not equal");}
else{System.out.println("Files are equal. No difference found");}
}
}
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02-Nov-2009, 07:58 PM #2
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04-Nov-2009, 01:24 AM #3
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