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

Posted by Christopher Kell
Christopher Kell
3,499 Points

Code Challenge: Formatting output

I'm not sure what I'm missing here.

CodeChallenge.cs 
string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("firstName");

I keep getting "Did you forget to pass firstName to WriteLine as a parameter?" I do not know what it means by that

1 Answer

christopher vaughan
christopher vaughan
1,411 Points

You're using a string literal (double quotes). which means you're outputting the value "firstname" and not what's in the variable. drop the quotes and you should be good.

Christopher Kell
Christopher Kell
3,499 Points

Thank you!