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kblack2
391 PointsWhy am I getting error
Why is my code generating an error?
Error message is: "Bummer! Did you set 'bookTitle' using the equals sign and a string value?"
string bookTitle;
bookTitle = "Dune";
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherYour code would work... outside the challenge. However, for some odd reason even they don't explicitly say it... they clearly want the declaration and the initialization on the same line. Don't ask me why. When I couldn't find anything wrong with your code I tried it all on one line... and what do you know? It worked!
string bookTitle = "Dune";
I'm almost of the opinion that this should be reported to Treehouse for problems with clarity. Because nowhere in the challenge instructions does it say that you must do the assignment and the initialization on the same line.
kblack2
391 Pointskblack2
391 PointsThank you Jennifer, got it to work. Wow, that was really bugging me because I had tested my code in the Workspace and it worked fine there. And I tried initialization in a single line, but I still had the original declaration in the line above (from the previous task), so that was giving me an error too.
Thanks for the clarification.