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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

Posted by John Drexler
John Drexler
4,806 Points

Compiler is saying that "while" is unexpected... not sure why

won't compile

Program.cs 
using System;

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

            var entry = Console.ReadLine();
            var target = int.Parse(entry);
            var counter = 0

            while (counter < target) {
                counter += 1;
                Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
        }
    }
}

2 Answers

stjarnan
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stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 Points
stjarnan
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stjarnan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 56,488 Points

Hi John!

I think you might be missing a closing bracket there.

Good luck!

Briain Corroon
Briain Corroon
13,689 Points

Also missing a semi-colon after "var counter = 0"

John Weber
John Weber
6,273 Points
John Weber
John Weber
6,273 Points

I had trouble with this too and I found that every single person on the forums who had solved it was using a 'for' statement, not a 'while' loop.

for(int counter = 0; counter < target; ++counter) {
                    Console.WriteLine("Yay!")
}