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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perform Converting Strings to Integers

Posted by Borislav Parov
Borislav Parov
626 Points

Adding 10 to height and store it into height?

I believe i 'm doing the right thing but it won't let me pass.

Borislav Parov
Borislav Parov
626 Points

Hey Brendan, This's my code: string heightInput = "168"; int heightInput = int.Parse("168"); heightInput = heightInput + 168;

Rafael silva
Rafael silva
23,877 Points

you can type just like , height = height + 10; or you can type like this : height += 10;

2 Answers

rh12
rh12
4,407 Points

Please note: I'm not currently taking this course, however I do have experience with C#.

My response may not be reflective of what has been taught to you thus far, so if someone taking this course has a more appropriate answer, please post it.

My approach would be to use the "+=" operator to add 10 to the current value of the height variable.

height += 10;

or you could also do the following

height = height + 10;
Borislav Parov
Borislav Parov
626 Points

I believe both will work. Thank you.

rh12
rh12
4,407 Points
rh12
rh12
4,407 Points

Hi Borislav,

You cannot use "heightinput" to store the parsed value of "168". You will need to declare another variable to store the resulting parsed value. The reason for this is because your "heightinput" variable was already declared as a type "string" (you cannot have two variables with the same name).

For example, you could do the following:

string heightInput  = "168";
int height = int.Parse(heightInput);

Assuming no exceptions are thrown during the parsing of "heightInput", the "height" integer variable should be set to 168. You can then use the height variable as you please.

Hope this helps.

-- Ryan

Borislav Parov
Borislav Parov
626 Points

Thank you Ryan. What you've provided It's working. The next part of the questions is to: "add 10 to height and store result back into height.