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Great, I got it. Thank you.

The errors are:


Employee.java:105: error: ')' expected
if(num.charAt(0.isDigit()) && num.charAt(1.isDigit()) && num.charAt(2).isDigit()) && num.charAt(3) = "-")
^...

Right.

Here's what I have so far


if(num.charAt(0.isDigit()) && num.charAt(1.isDigit()) && num.charAt(2).isDigit()) && num.charAt(3) = "-")
{
status = false;
}
...

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