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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

Posted by Chad Josewski
Chad Josewski
1,824 Points

I'm not sure why this is printing 53 times.

This doesn't make sense to me. This should be pretty straight forward.

I've tested this in workspaces too and I get a whole bunch of Yay!'s printed.

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {   
            int input;

            Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");

            input = Console.Read();

            for (var n = 0; n < input; n += 1)
            {
                Console.Write("Yay!");            
            }

        }
    }
}

2 Answers

Chad Josewski
Chad Josewski
1,824 Points

Eh... I solved it. Thanks.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

The input given must have started with the digit "5".

Since Console.Read returns the character value of the first character in the input stream, and the digit "5" has a character value of 53.

What you probably want instead is to use a different input method to get the entire input as a string, and then convert that string into a numeric value. Then use that as the count.