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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

Tomasz Necek
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Tomasz Necek
Courses Plus Student 7,028 Points
Posted by Tomasz Necek
Tomasz Necek
Courses Plus Student 7,028 Points

C# catch(FormatExeption)

Program.cs(16,20): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `FormatExeption' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference? Why?:) What can I do? Thank you very much!

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
        Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");
        int number = Int32.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

           for(int i = 0; i < number; i++)

             try
              {
               number = Int32.Parse(Console.ReadLine()) ;
              }
             catch(FormatExeption)
              {
                Console.WriteLine("You must enter a whole number");
                continue; 
              }
              {
             Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
              }

           }
    }
}

3 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

You got most of the parts there, but it looks like you have a few issues:

  • FormatException must be spelled with a "c"
  • you accidentally placed your try...catch blocks in between your for and its block
  • since you assign number inside the try now, you won't assign it where you declare it
  • the catch is not (and will not be) inside the loop, so you'll need a return instead of a continue

Fix those up and you should be good.

saranyamoellers
saranyamoellers
31,691 Points
saranyamoellers
saranyamoellers
31,691 Points

adding this line on top-> using System.Runtime.Serialization;