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C# C# Basics (Retired) Console I/O Formatting Output

Sadaf Owais
Sadaf Owais
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Posted by Sadaf Owais
Sadaf Owais
714 Points

Code challenge formatting

Why is it not accepting this answer?

CodeChallenge.cs 
string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine( + firstName + "rocks!");

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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You're really close here! However you have a leading plus sign in your WriteLine which is producing a compiler error. Also you're missing a leading space before " rocks!". Take a look at what you need:

string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine( firstName  + " rocks!");