Recieving error message

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I've been looking over and over the code and can't see anything wrong but there has got to be. I would appreciate if someone could help me out. I'm trying a simple repeating loop. The code is below, Thanks in advance.

Error Message reads:

"Arduino: 1.6.6 (Windows 7), Board: "Arduino/Genuino Uno"

_1:26: error: expected unqualified-id before 'else'

else { // the button is pressed

^

_1:39: error: expected declaration before '}' token

} // go back to the beginning of the loop

^

exit status 1 expected unqualified-id before 'else' "

Code:

int switchState = 0; void setup() { pinMode(3,OUTPUT); pinMode(4,OUTPUT); pinMode(5,OUTPUT); pinMode(2,INPUT);

}

void loop() { switchState = digitalRead(2); // this is a comment

if (switchState == LOW) { // the button is not pressed }

digitalWrite(3, HIGH); // green LED digitalWrite(4, LOW); // red LED digitalWrite(5, LOW); // red LED }

else { // the button is pressed digitalWrite(3, LOW); digitalWrite(4, LOW); digitalWrite(5, HIGH);

delay(250); // wait for a quarter second // toggle the LEDs digitalWrite(4, HIGH); digitalWrite(5, LOW); delay(250); // wait for quarter second } } // go back to the beginning of the loop

#2 
  if (switchState == LOW) {
    // the button is not pressed
  }



  digitalWrite(3, HIGH); // green LED
  digitalWrite(4, LOW); // red LED
  digitalWrite(5, LOW); // red LED
}

else { // the button is pressed
  digitalWrite(3, LOW);
  digitalWrite(4, LOW);
  digitalWrite(5, HIGH);

You have unconditional code (the first set of digitalWrite()s ) between the if and the else and too many closing braces. I suspect that you did not mean the first closing brace to be there in the code above

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