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C# C# Streams and Data Processing Reading Data Console I/O

Posted by Mohamed Monir
Mohamed Monir
22,362 Points

i Test this Code in Cshar REPL but i get error with code Challenge

i write this code in my local C# REPL and i get Result but here to answer the Challenge i found error Message

CodeChallenge.cs 
DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());
string fileName = Path.Combine(directory.FullName, "secretmessage.txt");
using (var reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(fileName))
{
    Console.SetIn(reader);
    Console.WriteLine(Console.ReadLine());
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

The challenge is apparently not expecting a fully-qualified identifier. Try assuming this snippet is part of a larger file that has "using System.IO;" at the top.

You might consider this to be a bug in the challenge. If so, you could report it to the Support folks.