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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

Kevin Khlom
Kevin Khlom
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Posted by Kevin Khlom
Kevin Khlom
14,369 Points

Keep getting "unexpected symbol" with counter int in C# final.

I keep getting an error with the counter variable. The system errors out counter as an unexpected symbol. Can anybody tell me how I can get around this?

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");
            int entry = Console.ReadLine();
            int yay = int.Parse(entry);
            var counter = 0;

            while (yay > counter)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Yay!")
                counter += 1;

            }

        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! When you fix this part you'll find that you have some more errors. But the problem causing your current compilation error is a missing semicolon on this line:

Console.WriteLine("Yay!")

That should be:

Console.WriteLine("Yay!");

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Kevin Khlom
Kevin Khlom
14,369 Points
Kevin Khlom
Kevin Khlom
14,369 Points

That did help. Thank you so much for your response.