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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

Posted by terence lara
terence lara
693 Points

C# Basic final part 2

So when I ran this in Visual Studio the count variable is not working. The console ask for a value and if a number larger than 0 is entered, "Yay!" is printed but only once. The program is not running through the loop until the count variable and user input are the same. Thanks for the help in advance.

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
             var count = 0;

            while (true)
            {
                Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\" : ");

                var input = Console.ReadLine();

                try
                {
                    var inputTimes = int.Parse(input);

                    if (inputTimes <= count)
                    {
                        Console.WriteLine("That is not enough for A Yay!");
                        continue;
                    }

                    else
                    {
                        Console.Write("Yay!");
                        count++;
                    }
                }

                catch (FormatException)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("That is invalid input. Enter a whole number.");
                    continue;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Ted Dunn
Ted Dunn
43,783 Points

You never created the loop necessary to print the word "Yay!" more than once. Instead of the else clause, you can do the following:

for(int i = 1; i <= inputTimes; i++)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
}
terence lara
terence lara
693 Points

Thank you. I got it to work using the for loop. I put a 1 in place of the i for the condition i <= inputTimes at first and my program just produced a bunch of Yays.