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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

Posted by Michael North
Michael North
2,561 Points

Unexpected symbol '{'

between lines 14 and 12 it tells me that there is an unexpected symbol '{'

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");

            string entry = Console.ReadLine();

            int times = int.Parse(entry);

            While(entry > 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
            }





        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Denny Scott
Denny Scott
16,092 Points
Denny Scott
Denny Scott
16,092 Points

Your while loop has a capital w. while is a keyword in c#, that expects curly braces to follow. On the other hand, While isn't understood by the interpreter, so the interpreter doesn't understand why there are curly braces following a random word. You should find by switching to a lower case w you will get by this error case. Hope that helps you :).

Michael North
Michael North
2,561 Points

Thank you very much for clearing things up, and for responding so quickly