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C# C# Basics Strings Escape Sequences

Posted by William Polk
William Polk
9,026 Points

Why is my code displaying a quote about "wumbo" not being a real word?

Program.cs 
using System;

class Program
{

        static string Quote (string words)
        {
            return words;
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        // Quote by Maya Angelou.
        Console.WriteLine(Quote("\"When you learn, teach. When you get, give.\""));
        // Quote by Benjamin Franklin.
        Console.WriteLine(Quote("\"No gains without pains.\""));
    }

}

1 Answer

Quincey Gleason
Quincey Gleason
3,465 Points
Quincey Gleason
Quincey Gleason
3,465 Points

Did you make sure to save the file before running it?

William Polk
William Polk
9,026 Points

Quincey--This was for the escape sequences challenge and was supposed to display the quotes by Maya Angelou and Ben Franklin. When I run the above code, the console displays this : We called Quote("Patrick, I don't think wumbo is a real word."), but we got a return value of: 'Patrick, I don't think wumbo is a real word.'. We were expecting '"Patrick, I don't think wumbo is a real word."'.

I tried refreshing the page, using different variable names, and rewriting the code from scratch, but the same message appears in the console.

When I hit the "Check Work" button, the same message about wumbo appears as the "Bummer" message.

Edit: I poked around and found that other people had had similar problems. There is a long discussion about it in this thread: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/is-this-a-joke