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

Posted by innocent sibanda
innocent sibanda
770 Points

concatenation

can someone help please

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

Console.WriteLine(firstName + rocks);

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

The challenge asks you to put two strings together. Without the quotation marks rocks is considered a variable name, but not variable named rocks exists here. Putting quotation marks around it makes it a string. firstName + " rocks!"