title: Unable to access a method's local variables outside of the method in Java
body: <p>I am new to Java and am trying to access method variables outside of the method, but it doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p>Code is below:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-java prettyprint-override"><code>public class MethodAccess {
      public static void minus() {
          int a=10;
          int b=15;
      }
  
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          //Here i want to access variable names a &amp; b that is in minus()
          int c = b - a;
      }
  }
  </code></pre>