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Start your free trialSimbarashe Chikaura
8,979 PointsBummer: Each time a word is added, its count should increase by 1.
I feel like my code achieves what the question requires, but i keep getting this error message. Help!
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
public class LexicalAnalysis
{
public Dictionary<string, int> WordCount = new Dictionary<string, int>();
public void AddWord(string word)
{
if (!WordCount.ContainsKey("word"))
{
WordCount.Add("word", 1);
}
else if (WordCount.ContainsKey("word"))
{
WordCount["word"] += 1;
}
}
}
}
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,198 PointsYou have the right idea, but anything in quotes is a literal string and only represents the characters between the quotes. Quotes should never be put around a variable or parameter name.
Simbarashe Chikaura
8,979 PointsThanks. I realised it soon after.