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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

Abdullah Mohamed
Abdullah Mohamed
17,323 Points
Posted by Abdullah Mohamed
Abdullah Mohamed
17,323 Points

Can't pass this task....

Task 3/3

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        { 
          var i=0;
          Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");                    
          try
         {
            var entry=Int32.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            while(i<entry)
            {

              if (entry<0) {
                Console.WriteLine("You must enter a positive number.");
                continue;
              }

              Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
               i++;
            }
          }
          catch (FormatException)
         {
          Console.WriteLine("You must enter a whole number.");
          }  
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

bothxp
bothxp
16,510 Points

Hi,

You have got the right code, but you just need to reorganise it a bit. The main issue is that you are using 

while(i<entry)

before you test for a negative value of entry. You earlier set i to 0, so if entry is -1, then you will never enter your while loop .... so you will never run the enclosed test for a positive number.

So I would move the test for a positive number to immediately after you have read the user input. Then you can use an 'else' to run the rest of the code.

using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        { 
          var i=0;
          Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");                    
          try
         {
            var entry=Int32.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            if (entry<0) {
                Console.WriteLine("You must enter a positive number.");
              } else {
              while(i<entry)
            {

              Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
               i++;
            }
              }

          }
          catch (FormatException)
         {
          Console.WriteLine("You must enter a whole number.");
          }  
        }
    }
}