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C#

Posted by Luis Aniceto
Luis Aniceto
172 Points

Good morning, I am having trouble on spoting the mistake I did in this code(it is not working), Thannk you

""" C#

using System;

namespace ola { class Program { static void Main() { // prompt the user for minutus bool keepgoing = true;

      while(keepgoing)
    {
    Console.Write("enter how many minutes you exerciced or type quit to quit");
  string datafirst = Console.ReadLine();
    if(datafirst == "quit")
    {
      keepgoing = "false";
    }
        else 
        {

    int numb = int.parse("datafirst");
        }
    }

    Console.WriteLine("You have exerciced " + numb + " minutes");


    // add minutus exercice to the total
    // display total
  }

} }

Luis Aniceto
Luis Aniceto
172 Points

I think it might be on Console.ReadLine();

because even when I try to run only this particular code it does not work

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,261 Points

You didn't mention what the issue was, but I will guess that it does not build because of the spelling of "parse" with a lower-case "p" instead of "Parse" (capital "P").

Also, I'd guess this program is intended to accumulate a total of the inputs instead of just displaying each entry.

In that case you might initialize the total before the loop and add to it instead of just assigning it:

            int numb = 0;  // initialize before loop
            while (keepgoing)
// <-- other code omitted for brevity -->
                    numb += int.Parse("datafirst");  // "addition assignment"

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