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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect if / else if / else

Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel
457 Points
Posted by Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel
457 Points

Program.cs(48,33): error CS1519: Unexpected symbol `(' in class, struct, or int erface member declaration

I'm missing something, I just can't tell what. It apparently doesn't like the '(' on the ("Goodbye") but I don't know.

namespace Treehouse.FitnessFrog { class Program { static void Main() { int runningTotal = 0; bool keepGoing = true;

    while (keepGoing)
    {
      //prompt user for minutes exercised
      System.Console.Write("Enter how many minutes you exercised or type \"quit\" to exit: ");

      string entry = System.Console.ReadLine();

      if(entry == "quit")
      {
           keepGoing = false;
      }

        int minutes = int.Parse(entry);

         if(minutes <+ 10)
         {
           Console.WriteLine("Better than nothing, am I right?");
         }
          else if(minutes <= 30)
          {
            System.Console.WriteLine("Way to go hot stuff!");

          }
          else if(minutes <= 60)
          {
            System.Console.WriteLine("You must be a ninja warrior in training!");
          }
          else
          {
            System.Console.WriteLine("Okay, now you're just showing off!");
                                     }                                                    
    runningTotal = runningTotal + minutes;                           

        System.Console.WriteLine("You've entered " + runningTotal + " minutes");
        }

    }

    System.Console.WriteLine("Goodbye");

}

}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

Line 48 is outside the definition for "Main", I expect you meant to have it be inside.

Also I noticed a couple of other issues:

  • on line 24 there is "<+" instead of "<="
  • on line 26 the "System" namespace prefix is missing
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel
457 Points
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel
457 Points

Thanks man. I cut the goodbye line and pasted up a curly bracket, corrected those other things and it worked.