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

Posted by innocent sibanda
innocent sibanda
770 Points

console.WriteLine

im stuck. can someone help please

CodeChallenge.cs 
string firstName=Console.ReadLine();

Console.WriteLine(string firstName);
innocent sibanda
innocent sibanda
770 Points

can someone help please

2 Answers

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

When you reference a variable you only need to type the name of the variable, the type (string) is only needed when the variable is created.

So the code should look like this:

string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine(firstName);