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Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 PointsI can't figure out why this won't compile online..it compiles in Visual Studio 2015 perfectly!
This will not compile in my workspace, but will compile in VS 2015 community perfectly. Im thinking its a string formatting issue, but could use some help with it. The solutions I found in the community seem to be over kill because they check for validation errors -- which wasn't in the challenge spec. Can somebody help, Please?
using System;
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("The prompt should print: Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\"");
var input = Console.ReadLine();
var counter = Convert.ToInt32(input);
var count = 0;
while (count < counter)
{
Console.WriteLine("\"Yay!\"");
count++;
}
}
}
}
2 Answers
Stephen Kilgore
Java Web Development Techdegree Student 2,610 PointsYou are right, it is a formatting issue. Nothing is wrong with your code semantically and it works as intended. It just isn't passing the checks on Treehouses automated testing.
If I were you, I would save everything after the console.write() line and restart to a fresh template by clicking the restart button on the challenge.
The string the challenge provides for you is already valid. Just add everything back in after that call to Console.write() and you will pass.
Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 Pointshm..that didn't get it. Here's the code with the write() method changes.
var input = Console.ReadLine(); var counter = Convert.ToInt32(input); var count = 0;
while (count < counter) { Console.WriteLine(count + "yah!"); count++;
}
Stephen Kilgore
Java Web Development Techdegree Student 2,610 PointsYou can't put count in the string that console.WriteLine outputs in the loop. It just wants you to output yay! (not yah like you have) and nothing else.
Again, it seems you're getting caught by the formatting, but this time on the yah! instead of the first one. make sure the output is:
Console.WriteLine("yay!");
if you include anything else in there, including the count variable, you will not pass the test as the checks are looking for strings that literally just are "yay!"