Why do I get the error “File cannot be resolved to a type”?

Question

Here\'s part of my code

try{

    BufferedReader in= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

    while ((line= in.readLine())!=\"exit\"){

            


        

Answer 1

You most likely forgot to import java.io.File but essentially the compiler is telling you it can't find the "File" class.

See this java error page specific to "File cannot be resovled to a type" for more info.