missing bracket

[Dillinger4]

Does anyone know why i might be getting an '}'
expected error at line 60 which is basically
at the end of the program? I dont see that
i am mising any brackets.

Im doing a little program that was
assigned by one of my friends teachers
as a project. So i decided to do
it to just to get some practice. My algorithm
for calculating the string is off {just to tell you}
so ill have to work on it.

// create a method that takes a String as an arguement and returns a TreeMap
// which will map the string and the number of characters that occur only 
// once within the string. since the counting operation can be 
// time consuming, the method should cache  
// the results so that when the method is 
// given a string previously encountered,it will
// simply retrieve the stored result.
    
  import java.io.*; 
  import java.util.*;   
   
  public class MultipleChar{
     public static void main(String[] args){

     for(;;){
      BufferedReader buff = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        try{
         System.out.println("Please enter a string");
         String key = buff.readLine();
         TreeMap tm = (TreeMap) checkForDuplicates(key);
      
         System.out.println("Within" + tm.get(key) + "there were" +  "characters that only appeared once");
         System.out.println("Press x if you would like to exit");
         String exit = buff.readLine();
         if(exit.equalsIgnoreCase("x")){System.exit(0);}
       }catch(Exception e){System.err.println(e);}
    } // end for 
     } // end main 
   
   public static Object checkForDuplicates(String key){
        int onlyappearsonce = 0;
        boolean charmatch = false;
        String matchingString;
        Map stringMap = new TreeMap();
        
     
     // check map to see if string is present
     // if it is return key
 
         for(Iterator i = (stringMap.values()).iterator();  i.hasNext();){            
           if(stringMap.containsKey(key)){
             return stringMap.get(i.next());     
            }
           i.next();
         }
    // if string is not present 
   // calculate characters that only appear once and add to map
       
    for(int index = 0; index <= matchingString.length() - 1; ++index){
          char matchingchar = matchingString.charAt(index);
                       
           for(int x = 1 + index; x <= matchingString.length() - x ; ++x){
               if(matchingchar == matchingString.charAt(x)){
                  charmatch = true;
                  break;  
           }
           if(charmatch == false){++onlyappearsonce;}     
     } 
     Integer charcount = new Integer(onlyappearsonce);
     return stringMap.put(key,charcount);
   }

[crptcblade]

if(matchingchar == matchingString.charAt(x)){
                  charmatch = true;
                  break;

I think it is here. You do't appear to have closed off your If block

[crptcblade]

also add another } to close off the class block

[Dillinger4]

Your right.... I fixed it but i still keep getting '}' expected at line
63. very weird.

// create a method that takes a String as an arguement and returns a TreeMap
// which will map the string and the number of characters that occur only 
// once within the string. since the counting operation can be 
// time consuming, the method should cache  
// the results so that when the method is 
// given a string previously encountered,it will
// simply retrieve the stored result.
    
  import java.io.*; 
  import java.util.*;   
   
  public class MultipleChar{
     public static void main(String[] args){

     for(;;){
      BufferedReader buff = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        try{
         System.out.println("Please enter a string");
         String key = buff.readLine();
         TreeMap tm = (TreeMap) checkForDuplicates(key);
      
         System.out.println("Within" + tm.get(key) + "there were" +  "characters that only appeared once");
         System.out.println("Press x if you would like to exit");
         String exit = buff.readLine();
         if(exit.equalsIgnoreCase("x")){System.exit(0);}
       }catch(Exception e){System.err.println(e);}
    } // end for 
     } // end main 
   
   public static Object checkForDuplicates(String key){
        int onlyappearsonce = 0;
        boolean charmatch = false;
        String matchingString;
        Map stringMap = new TreeMap();
        
     
     // check map to see if string is present
     // if it is return key
 
         for(Iterator i = (stringMap.values()).iterator();  i.hasNext();){            
           if(stringMap.containsKey(key)){
             return stringMap.get(i.next());     
            }
           i.next();
         }
    // if string is not present 
   // calculate characters that only appear once and add to map
       
    for(int index = 0; index <= matchingString.length() - 1; ++index){
          char matchingchar = matchingString.charAt(index);
                       
           for(int x = 1 + index; x <= matchingString.length() - x ; ++x){
               if(matchingchar == matchingString.charAt(x)){
                  charmatch = true;
                  break;
               }
           }
           if(charmatch == false){++onlyappearsonce;}     
     } 
     Integer charcount = new Integer(onlyappearsonce);
     return stringMap.put(key,charcount);
     
  }

[Dillinger4]

Duh? Im an idiot. I forgot to add a } for the class block. Thanks for pointing that out. It would have drove me crazy.