Unable to access a method's local variables outside of the method in Java

Question

I am new to Java and am trying to access method variables outside of the method, but it doesn\'t work.

Code is below:

Answer 1

You need to define the variables as static class variables, so you can access them from a static function. Also watch out for the access modifiers, since when the variable is private you can't access them outside any other class.

public class methodacess {

   private static int a;
   private static int b;

   public static void minus(){   
      methodacess obj =new methodacess();
      a=10;
      b=15;
   }  

   public static void main (String[] args){   
      //Here i want to access variable names a & b that is in minus() 
      int c = b - a; 
   }   

}