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C# C# Basics (Retired) Console I/O Formatting Output

Posted by roseleen zhou
roseleen zhou
2,321 Points

formatting output

declare a variable named firstName and initialize it to the string returned from a call to Console.ReadLine();

CodeChallenge.cs 
 firstName =  String.Console.ReadLine() ;

2 Answers

Katrin Nitsche
Katrin Nitsche
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Katrin Nitsche
Katrin Nitsche
23,462 Points

Hello Roseleen

I think you slightly misunderstood the question. You are asked to get the return from console.readline and cast it to a string. Would you do is:

string firstName = Console.ReadLine().ToString();

or var firstName = Console.ReadLine(); The return type from Console.ReadLine() is always a string so it needs not extra casting.

I hope this helps Katrin

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roseleen zhou
roseleen zhou
2,321 Points
roseleen zhou
roseleen zhou
2,321 Points

thank you