Assume the following:
private static boolean A() { int parsedUntil = 0; ... ... ... } Is parsedUntil considered to be a static variable? I noticed that I can't declare it as static inside this static function.
Follow-up question: I read that a static variable will only be initialized once. Does that mean the first time I call function A() the value will be set to zero, but every other time I call A(), that row is omitted?
No, it's not a static variable. It's a local variable. Any variable declared in a method is a local variable. If you want a static variable, you have to declare it outside the method:
private static int parsedUntil = 0; There's no way of declaring a static variable which can only be used within a single method.
parsedUntil being a non-static variable be accessible from a static function?
parsedUntil in the original question (rather than in my answer) that's a local variable, not an instance variable. I don't know where you got that exact sentence from, but it's not the way I'd have written it.parsedUntil is a local variables in the static method.no, A() is a static method, and parsedUntil is a local variable inside A.
Modifiers like static are not valid in local variables (only final is permitted afaik)
Follow-up question: I read that a static variable will only be initialized once.
true
Does that mean the first time I call function A() the value will be set to zero, but every other time I call A(), that row is omitted?
since parsedUntil is not a static field, but a local variable in a static method, this is not the case.
static variables cannot be declared locally inside methods - they can only be members of a class, and they get initialised when the class is loaded.
Java does not have static local variables like C or C++ does, so you can never have static int parsedUtil = 0;.
So no, parsedUtil is not in any sense "static". Its value is initialised to 0 every time the method is executed.
No it's not C.
parsedUntil is not static. It's just a local variable. You cannot declare static variable inside the method.
Regarding second question - static variables can be assigned as many times as you want. You cannot reassign only final variables.
