hi,
for some reason i can't add a method within jsp tags?
it says : Illegal start of expression.

Here's the code:
<%
....
------THE ERROR IS HERE THE METHOD DECLARATION IS THE ILLEGAL START OF
EXPRESSION
public void preserveTag(int i){
     if(i==0){
       data_body.replaceFirst("\\*T","<pre>");
     }else
       data_body.replaceFirst("\\*T","</pre>");
  }

 StringTokenizer x = new StringTokenizer(data_body);
 int order = 0;
 while(x.hasMoreTokens()){
  // out.println(x.nextToken());
   if(x.nextToken().equals("*T")){
     out.println("FOUND *T");
     if(order==0){
       out.println("OPEN TAG");
       preserveTag(order);
       //data_body.replaceFirst("\\*T","<pre>");
       order = 1;
     }else {
       out.println("CLOSE TAG");
      //data_body.replaceFirst("\\*T","</pre>");
       preserveTag(order);
       order = 0;
     }
   }
 }

....
%>

Now im sure hte asnwer is really simple but for some reason i can't
find out anywhere? If someone knows my problem please help
thanks
-morc