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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Variable Scope

Jon Lopey
Jon Lopey
12,681 Points
Posted by Jon Lopey
Jon Lopey
12,681 Points

What am I doing wrong?

Cannot implicitly convert type void' tostring'?

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {          
            string input = Console.ReadLine();
            string output = Console.WriteLine();

            if (input == "quit")
            {
                 output = "Goodbye.";
            }
            else
            {
                output = "You entered " + input + ".";
            }

            Console.WriteLine(output);
        }
    }
}

2 Answers

William Li
PLUS
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points 
            string output = Console.WriteLine();

This line is the problem in your code. Per challenge description

Declare the output variable just before the if statement and assign it to an empty string (i.e. "").

You should declare output variable and assign an empty string as its value; not Console.WriteLine().

Jon Lopey
Jon Lopey
12,681 Points
Jon Lopey
Jon Lopey
12,681 Points

Thank you so much! I finally got it.