A Java Question

Hi all, Well, I think this is going to end up real silly, but my head hurts and I've combed through this code who knows how many times. So I bring the quandary to you... Code, with contextual comments, is below. Per the subject, we're dealin' in Java.

public static void gradesort(int scores[]) { // The scores array consists of exam scores, ranging from 1 to 100. Its size and values were established in another method. This method's job is to sort the scores into letter grades using the typical 100-90-80-70-60 scale and print the output. int[] grades = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}; // Set up an array to hold counters for each of the letter grades A, B, C, D, and F. initialize them all to 0. for (int i=0; i<scores.length; i++) { // This loops through all the scores in the "Scores" array.
       if (scores[i] <= 100) && (scores[i] > 90)
grades[0]++; // Check to see if the given score is between 90 and 100, and increment the counter for A if it is.
       if (scores[i] <= 90) && (scores[i] > 80)
grades[1]++; // Same thing, just incrementing the B counter this time.
       if (scores[i] <= 80) && (scores[i] > 70)
           grades[2]++; // etc.
       if (scores[i] <= 70) && (scores[i] > 60)
           grades[3]++;
       if (scores[i] < 60)
grades[5]++; // Note I skipped over grades[4], since this would be a counter for E.
       }
for (char letter='A'; letter<='E'; letter++) { // Loop through the now completed counters.
       if (letter == 'E') {
letter++; // Fix the discrepancy caused by E. This is why I skipped the grades[4] value a few lines above.
           }
System.out.println("Number of "+letter+"'s: "+grades[letter-'A']); // Print each letter and the value of its corresponding counter.
       }
   }



The fun comes with the if statements. All get "Illegal start of expression" and "expected ;" errors at compile. I thought it might be wanting {}'s for the if statements, (I remembered in some other languages if a conditional statement's innards are all on one line, then you can exclude the braces and wasn't sure about Java). But I put them in and got the same errors. AS you can see, I've since removed them again. But I'm not seeing what's wrong here. A nudge in the right direction will really make my evening! Thanks in advance.

Jared
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