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

Posted by Donevin Smith
Donevin Smith
395 Points

How do I pass `firstName` to `WriteLine` as a parameter?

How do i pass the string 'firstName' to 'System.Console.WriteLine();' as a parameter... watch it be obvious

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,788 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,788 Points

The parameters passed to a function are placed inside the parentheses that follow the function name. So to pass a parameter named firstName to the "Console.WriteLine()* function, it would look like this:

Console.WriteLine(firstName);
Christian 123
Christian 123
6,899 Points
Christian 123
Christian 123
6,899 Points

Yea i got confused if he was trying to print out "firstName" or trying to print the variable but he had camelCase on it. guess im just stupid lol

Donevin Smith
Donevin Smith
395 Points

Thank you for your help...that makes sense now

Christian 123
Christian 123
6,899 Points
Christian 123
Christian 123
6,899 Points

Uh i don't understand exactly what you are saying if you want to print "firstName" to the console just do 

System.Console.WriteLine("firstName");

But it does look like how you wrote first name is a variable so to pass a variable just do the same thing with out any double quotation marks. :) Hope this helped if it didn't msg me agian

Donevin Smith
Donevin Smith
395 Points

Thanks for your help