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

Dennis Zern
Dennis Zern
813 Points
Posted by Dennis Zern
Dennis Zern
813 Points

I dont understand what im supposed to do here: Declare a variable named firstName and initialize it to the string return

Declare a variable named firstName and initialize it to the string returned from a call to Console.ReadLine().

When i do

String firstName = Console.ReadLine(); it wont work

CodeChallenge.cs 
String firstName =

1 Answer

Philip G
Philip G
14,600 Points
Philip G
Philip G
14,600 Points

Well, I assume you are coming from the Java Language. It's a very common mistake which has also happened to me very often when switching to C#. Opposing to Java where you have to write String with an uppercase S, in C#, string is a reference to the String class used to declare a string. Although not wrong, it is more common to use the lowercase reference, which is also the thing asked in the challenge. This code should work:

string firstName = Console.ReadLine();

Best Regards, Philip