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

Posted by Kellen King
Kellen King
2,831 Points

How do I initialize a variable to be return from being called on with the Console.ReadLine(); method?

I tried to initialize my variable to return from being called by the Console.ReadLine(); method but when I tried to do so.... It kept giving me compiler errors.

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

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! I feel like there is some misunderstanding of the instructions somewhere. I'll show you the line of code you need for step 1 and then explain it.

string firstName = Console.ReadLine();

Here we declare a variable named firstName and make it of type string. We initialize the variable by calling the Console.ReadLine() method which then reads a line from the console. This in itself returns a string that was read in from the console where the user typed. Whatever the user typed will now be assigned as the value of firstName.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Kellen King
Kellen King
2,831 Points

Thanks