Cannot find symbol

Hi,

I made a sample program and the writeUTF() works.

But i cant figure out why it wont work for other program

Here is the part of the program where i call the writeUTF() function

public void encode(InputStream In, OutputStream Out, Hashtable<String, Integer> dictionary)throws IOException

{

try{

int dictionarySize = 256;

int reader = 0;

String addVal="";

//byte[] convertedVal;

String firstVal= (char)In.read()+"";

while(In.available()>0)

{

reader=In.read();

if(dictionary.containsKey(firstVal + (char)reader)){

firstVal = firstVal + (char)reader;

System.out.println("Im Here");

}

else

{

System.out.println("Im here 2");

Out.writeUTF(firstVal);

addVal = firstVal + (char)reader;

dictionary.put(addVal, dictionarySize);

firstVal = (char)reader+"";

dictionarySize++;

}

}

Out.writeUTF(firstVal);

System.out.println("Dictionary Size is now "+dictionarySize);

}

catch(IOException e){

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

carrics3a at 2007-7-12 0:53:49 >