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C# C# Basics (Retired) Console I/O Console I/O

Posted by Magnus Stricker
Magnus Stricker
539 Points

what on earth am I doing wrong? Bug on C# Basics Console I/O?

First question: declare your variable for bookTitle so I enter string bookTitle; and get a big green tick Next question: Assign bookTitle the title of your favourite book so I enter bookTitle = "lordOfTheFlies"; no joy so I try string bookTitle = "lordOfTheFlies"; no joy.... I'm a wee bit stuck any help would be much appreciated.

Magnus Stricker
Magnus Stricker
539 Points

Thanks for trying to help guys - I have sent a message to support so hopefully they will be able to resolve it. Highly frustrating for a newbie like me but I guess at least it helped me to be super critical and analyse my code for any mistakes

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

These things happen pretty infrequntly, thankfully! Support should be able to help you get moving and, yes, you'll never forget how to declare a string properly!! :-)

5 Answers

Magnus Stricker
Magnus Stricker
539 Points

For those who have a similar problem: I managed to make it work by answering the first 2 questions on the same line.

Krzysztof Kucharzyk
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Krzysztof Kucharzyk
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,005 Points
Krzysztof Kucharzyk
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Krzysztof Kucharzyk
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,005 Points

Common sense tells me that this suppose to work and this is how you suppose to write your code:

String bookTitle = "lordOfTheFlies";
Magnus Stricker
Magnus Stricker
539 Points

Yeah thats what I wrote and it says I'm wrong...? Is it a bug maybe?

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

I got this to work with all the code on one line and a lowercase string keyword. 

string bookTitle = "The Catcher in the Rye";

Steve.

Magnus Stricker
Magnus Stricker
539 Points

Thanks I tried that - still not working it comes up with this message: Bummer! Did you set 'bookTitle' using the equals sign and a string value?

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

There must be intermittent issues with the site, then. It is working fine here. Maybe shout support.

micram1001
micram1001
33,833 Points
micram1001
micram1001
33,833 Points

Ran your code in challenges( all 4), no problems.

string bookTitle =  "lordOfTheFlies";
System.Console.Write("Enter a book title: ");
bookTitle = System.Console.ReadLine();
Erik Sorensen
Erik Sorensen
13,846 Points
Erik Sorensen
Erik Sorensen
13,846 Points

I was getting the error when I had:

string bookTitle; string bookTitle = "lordOfTheFlies";

Once I removed string bookTitle;

My answer was found to be correct.