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C# C# Basics Strings Strings

Posted by Nic Harrington
Nic Harrington
825 Points

C# Basic Coding Challenge - \" Not Working

I'm unsure why my code \"" is being marked as incorrect for the coding challenge that asks me to have it print "Hello, Treehouse"

using System;

class Program
{

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var name = "Treehouse";
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, " \"" name);
    }

}

When I review the video, it states that I use \" to escape from using double-quotes. Am I missing something?

1 Answer

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7,933 Points 
// Your code
Console.WriteLine("Hello, " \"" name);

// Correct code
Console.WriteLine("Hello, " + name);

// They want you to combine "Hello, " with name
// You do that with +
// You don't need \"" in this scenario because "Hello, " has an opening quote and a closing quote
// also there is no need to add addition quotes to "Hello, " string
// the (\") allows you to add quotes within quotes, see example below
Console.WriteLine("He said, \"I won't be able to make it today\".")

// As you can see, we have quotes within quotes. If we did not have (\") our Console.WriteLine would not
// work the way we wanted it.