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C# C# Basics (Retired) Console I/O Formatting Output

steeve Francois
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steeve Francois
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Posted by steeve Francois
steeve Francois
Courses Plus Student 572 Points

can someone me with this.....Use Console.WriteLine to print the contents of the firstName variable to the screen.

I did the first two line but there is something wrong with the third one

CodeChallenge.cs 
string firstName;
string fisrtName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("firstName");

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

Don't put quotes around your variable name.

That makes it a literal string, but you want to use the variable which represents the name that was assigned.

Also, you can only declare a variable once, whether or not you initialize it at the same time. So you don't need the first line at all.

Terry Bowyer
Terry Bowyer
2,450 Points
Terry Bowyer
Terry Bowyer
2,450 Points

I tried this answer.

  1. It worked for me without the second object 'string'
  2. Careful of the spelling for the firstName variable on line two :-)