Error: cannot find symbol symbol: class PezDispeForMnO

Hi, looking at your post I think something went very bad when you were posting the code snippet. If I am not wrong it looks something like that, with a few comments more or less ( probably less ).

public class PezDispeForMnO {
  // making a classs 
  // generally we begin class with a capital letter(easy to identify) 

  // creating an object with size 12 
  // Use of "final" so that nobody can change it 
  public final int NUM_PEZ = 12; 
  private String mcharName;

  // Use of "m" before charName to denote it as a member
  public PezDispeForMnO(String CharName) { 
    mcharName= CharName; 
  } 

  // making a constructor with 1 field/parameter/argument 
  public String getCharName() { 
    return mcharName; 
  }

}

public class MethsAndObjects {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    System.out.println("Creating a new Pez Dispenser");
    PezDispeForMnO dispenser = new PezDispeForMnO("Leo");
    System.out.printf("The dispenser name is %s\n", dispenser.getCharName());

  }

}

So I ran it on a workspace and everything seems ok. This is my console output.

treehouse:~/workspace$ javac PezDispeForMnO.java                                                                                           
treehouse:~/workspace$ javac MethsAndObjects.java                                                                                          
treehouse:~/workspace$ java MethsAndObjects                                                                                                
Creating a new Pez Dispenser                                                                                                               
The dispenser name is Leo                                                                                                                  

Yes, the file name is exactly PezDispeForMnO.java. It is working on console. But it gives error when I use java-repl. The file is even getting loaded, but when I type the command PezDispeForMnO pd = new PezDispeForMnO, it gives error. I have tried running the code for more than 5 times, but everytime I get the same error.

Here is how it looks--

java> :load PezDispeForMnO.java
Loaded source file from PezDispeForMnO.java
java> PezDispeForMnO pd = new PezDispeForMnO("Leo");
ERROR: cannot find symbol
symbol: class PezDispeForMnO
location: interface Evaluation PezDispeForMnO method$atwpkir8yvxb3f7docn9(); ^

Thank you very much for replying.

It looks like there's a typing error in your class declaration:

 public PezDispeForMnO(String CharName)
     // making a constructor with 1 field/parameter/argument
   {
     mcharName= CharName;
    }

You need to place a space between mcharName and the = symbol, like so:

 public PezDispeForMnO(String CharName)
     // making a constructor with 1 field/parameter/argument
   {
     mcharName = CharName;
    }

Try importing the PezDispeForMnO class in your MethsAndObject file: