Thread: Simple help in Java !!

I wrote this simple piece of code to find the number in the given array of Integers.The program works fine although it shows a couple of errors when i modify it a little bit.

public class DemoLabel{
 
	public static void main(String [] args){
 
		int[][] arrofInts={
			{32,45,67,87},
			{23,44,55,66},
			{12,47,87,56},
			{23,44,12,78}
		};
		int searchFor=12;
		int i;
		int j=0;
		boolean foundIt=false;
 
 
 
		search:
			System.out.println("HELLO");//Shows error
			for(i=0;i<arrofInts.length;i++){
				for(j=0;j<arrofInts[i].length;j++){
					if(arrofInts[i][j]==searchFor){
						foundIt=true;
						disp(i,j,searchFor);
						continue search;
					}
				}
			}
		/*if(foundIt){
			System.out.println("The number " + searchFor+" was found at " + i+","+j);
		}
 
		else{
			System.out.println("The number was not  found ");
		}*/
	} 
	public static void disp(int i, int j,int searchFor){
		System.out.println("The number "+searchFor+" is at the location "+i+" , "+j);
		}
 
 
}

In the disp() method,Suppose i only want to pass two arguments i.e disp(i,j) given that searchFor variable is visible in the entire class but when i use disp(i,j) i get the following error DemoLabel.java:38: error: cannot find symbol System.out.println("The number "+searchFor+" is at the location"+i+" , "+j);
^
symbol: variable searchFor
location: class DemoLabel

So i decided to declare the

int searchFor

as

 public int searchFor

but the compiler threw another error saying that it was a Illegal start of expression

Also,when i add a SOP line after the label search: it shows the error DemoLabel.java:25: error: undefined label: search
continue search;
^
Although i got the program to work it would be helpful if i could understand why it doesn't work with the modifications.

Thanks.