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C# C# Streams and Data Processing Reading Data Console I/O

Posted by JaeVeine Covington
JaeVeine Covington
9,208 Points

Console I/O challenge help

I dont know how it wants me to write it to the console

CodeChallenge.cs 
DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());
string fileName = Path.Combine(directory.FullName, "secretmessage.txt");
using (var reader = new StreamReader(fileName), System.Console.Writeline();

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

You're close, but there's a few issues:

  • the parentheses are unbalanced (3 opens, but only 2 closes)
  • there should not be a comma between the "using" and the following code
  • "WriteLine" should be spelled with a capital "L" (instead of "Writeline")