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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

Mihia Maftei
Mihia Maftei
1,315 Points

Hi was take me a long time to do this and now when i finish it is show me the code was take to long to run pls any help

...

Program.cs
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        { 

            Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");
            string entry = Console.ReadLine();       
            int total = int.Parse(entry);
            int counter = 1;

            while(true){
                try
                {
                    total = int.Parse(entry);

                    if (counter  <= total)
                    {
                                        Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
                int track = counter;
                Console.WriteLine(track);
            counter ++;
                    }


                }
                catch (FormatException)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("That is not valid input.");
                    continue;
                }
            }

        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Allan Clark
Allan Clark
10,810 Points

you need to add a break to your loop. while(true) without a break statement is an infinite loop.