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Abdul Majid Qureshi
170 Pointsdeclaring a string relates to is it a string ? or what? and should be = System.Console.Readline();
firstName= System.Console.ReadLine();
firstName= System.Console.ReadLine();
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Jeewoo Chung
609 PointsYour question didn't quite make sense but I see that either you didn't declare the data type of 'firstName' or you just didn't include it in the question? If you didn't declare 'firstName' and give it a data type before that line of code, 'firstName' wouldn't be considered a variable since you didn't give it any sort of data type (data type - the type of variable such as var, int, string, double, bool and et cetera) it wouldn't be considered a variable.
I am not sure if you meant what's wrong with that line of code or if you asked something else since your question didn't quite make sense but if your question was asking why that line of code wasn't working, the solution is simple.
All you have to do is give that variable a data type either by...
Method 1. Declaring the firstName variable before that line of code var (or you could use string instead) firstName;
Method 2. Declaring the data type in the same line of code you wrote var (or you could use string instead) firstName = System.Console.ReadLine();
Hope this helped I'm still learning as well