How to fix java 38 error cannot find symbol

Question

Hi guys can you help me fix this error I am not sure what to do and I have been trying to resolve it for a long time, stackoverflow is not allowing me to post because my post is more code than is description but this is the error I am getting please help

/PROG3.java:38: error: cannot find symbol
    static int size = Taskdetails.getNumberOfTasks();
                                 ^
  symbol:   method getNumberOfTasks()
  location: variable Taskdetails of type String
1 error

I will appreciate your inputs

Answer 1

You named a variable Taskdetails of type String. And in the line in the error message, you try to access its method getNumberOfTasks which is not present in the String class.