Trouble with 'Unexpected symbol' error messages

Unity Engine
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I’m following a tutorial on how to write a simple fire projectiles script, and it appears I’m either missing something, or I’ve added an extra symbol somewhere that I’m not seeing. I’m currently receiving multiple unexpected symbol error messages and a parsing error all within the ‘void Fire’ section. The errors are:

Assets/Scripts/PlaneShooting.cs(57,9): error CS1519: Unexpected symbol `{’ in class, struct, or interface member declaration

Assets/Scripts/PlaneShooting.cs(58,30): error CS1519: Unexpected symbol `>’ in class, struct, or interface member declaration

Assets/Scripts/PlaneShooting.cs(63,18): error CS8025: Parsing error

public class PlaneShooting : MonoBehaviour {

    public float coolDown = 0f;
    public float fireRate = 0f;

    //check to see if actually firing
    public bool isFiring = false;

    //firing point transforms for launching projectiles
    public Transform leftFirePoint;
    public Transform rightFirePoint;

    //projectile object
    public GameObject laserPrefab;

    //blaster sound effect
    public AudioSource BlasterSFX;


    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        isFiring = false;

                   
    }
   
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {
        CheckInput ();
        coolDown -= Time.deltaTime;

        if (isFiring == true) 
        {
            //the player has initiated shooting
            Fire();
        }

    }

    void CheckInput ()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown ("space")) 
        {
            isFiring = true;
        } 
        else 
        {
            isFiring = false;
        }

    }

    void Fire ();
    {
        if (coolDown > 0)
        {
            return; //do not fire
        }
        //play SFX when player is firing
        if(BlasterSFX != null)
        {
            BlasterSFX.Play ();
        }
        GameObject.Instantiate (laserPrefab, leftFirePoint.position, leftFirepoint.rotation);
        GameObject.Instantiate (laserPrefab, rightFirePoint.position, rightFirepoint.rotation);

        coolDown = fireRate;
    }
}

Any help is much appreciated.

2

Pay attention to the line number on the error message. The error will likely be close by.

Line 54 above has an unwanted semicolon at the end of the Fire() function definition, to start with.

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Thank you, that fixed it!