else without if error

Does anyone know why i'm getting an 'else' withour 'if' error here? It looks like correct code to me...what did I miss?


//Linear search
public BankAccount searchAccounts (Vector<BankAccount> bankAccounts , long accountNumber){
for(int x=0;x<bankAccounts.size();x++){
if(bankAccounts.elementAt(x).getAccountNumber() == accountNumber){
return bankAccounts.elementAt(x); //return the element
else
return null; //if not found, return null.
}
}
}

I was also reading about the new for-each style loop in java. Is there a way to rewrite the above for statement to use the new loop construct?

ttyl.

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