Why is not working?

Question

Only thing I get is error try again but nothing else, I dont know where is the problem here?

Program.cs

using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {   
           int i=0;
            Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");
             var input =Console.ReadLine();
            try{
                var num=double.Parse(input);
                if(num<=0)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("You must enter a postive num.");
                }
                else
                {
                while(i!=num)
                {
                Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
                    i++;
                }
              }
            }
            catch(FormatException)
            {
            Console.WriteLine("That is not a valid input.");
            }

        }
    }
}

Answer 1 · 2017-07-12T01:05:41Z

July 12, 2017 1:05am

You're using the wrong kind of conversion.

You want to catch when "the user enters a decimal or something that isn’t a number", but your converting the input using double.Parse. That won't cause exceptions for decimals, it will just convert them. You probably want to use int.Parse instead.

Also, the challenges are very picky about output strings, and it wants to see “You must enter a whole number.” on a bad input. But your exception message is "That is not a valid input."

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Luka Cabarkapa

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Steven Parker

Steven Parker

You're using the wrong kind of conversion.