Mario error: expected ';' at end of declaration...all solutions i've found fail

Question

i've been wasting hours going round in circles. Frustrating that first steps of learning are this hard.][4]

i;ve removed the semi-colon and moved the curly hash together and separetely to no avail.

Answer 1

It's simple. There's no semicolon at the end of the line. Each line of code is expected to end with a semicolon.

If there's something more complex going on, it would require seeing the surrounding code to see what is causing the problem.

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This is a very, very common mistake for new programmers, so don't feel bad.

Simple fix: remove the semicolon from the following line:

int main(void)

A semicolon should only be added to the end of a signature line when the full function code appears later. (You'll learn about this later.) The main declaration behaves just like a signature line for a function, but should never be written with a semicolon.

With errors like this, the compiler gets confused because it thinks the line is a function signature, so it keeps going until it sees something that looks wrong, given that the signature line was right. (Or the developers of C think this error is so basic that it doesn't warrant code in the compiler to catch this as an error.)

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