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C# C# Streams and Data Processing Reading Data Console I/O

Remco de Wilde
Remco de Wilde
9,864 Points
Posted by Remco de Wilde
Remco de Wilde
9,864 Points

Code works in Visual studio but not in Code Challange

If i put this code in Visual studio, it works fine.

In code Challange it's tells me i dit not pass fileName

CodeChallenge.cs 
DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());
string fileName = Path.Combine(directory.FullName, "secretmessage.txt");
var file = new FileInfo(fileName);
            if (file.Exists)
            {
                using (var reader = new StreamReader(file.FullName))
                {
                    Console.SetIn(reader);
                    Console.WriteLine(Console.ReadLine());
                }
            }

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

You're pretty close.

But it looks like you're pasting in code you found somewhere else instead of writing it specifically for this challenge. That's not going to help you learn as much as doing it yourself!

But here's some hints.

  • you have an if statement that the challenge did not ask for
  • the challenge asked you to use fileName as the argument for StreamReader, but you have file.FullName