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

chzevernchong
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C# basic formatting output, challenge task 3 of 3 not working

I think i am correct but not sure what is the problem, please help..

CodeChallenge.cs 
string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine(firstName + “ rocks!”);

3 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! Your code would be fine but you're using the incorrect type of quotation marks. These should be the quotation marks that go straight up and down.

You've typed: “ rocks!”

But it should be: " rocks!"

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Henrik Christensen
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Looks like you're doing 2x single quotes every time you want to do a double quote - but the code worked for me when using double quotes like this:

string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine(firstName + " rocks!");
chzevernchong
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chzevernchong
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Thanks for helping me and it works for me, I do that because i copy and paste straight away from the question provided and I am not sure why he did that....haha :P