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how do yo call a method?
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsThe most common way of calling a method is to name a class instance, and use the membership operator (dot).
For example, if you had a class named Dog with a method named Bark. Then after you had created a Dog instance named "fido" you could call the method on it this way: "fido.Bark();
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