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Meagan Tindall
894 PointsI am being told there is a compiler issue and I have an unexpected symbol '{' but there is NO symbol written
It asks for me to declare a string but Not set it to anything ie:
string bookTitle =
string bookTitle =
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsWhen the code checker runs your code it automatically includes some boilerplate code (sets up a class and a method) in order to run your code. That boilerplate code does include the { symbol. The reason why your code errors is that it is invalid to use the = operator without specifying anything to assign.
Using the = operator is not necessary to declare a variable, so you should just remove it from your code. You have also forgotten to include a semicolon to end your statement. If you fix those two issues like this:
string bookTitle;
Then your code will pass the first task.
Meagan Tindall
894 PointsThank you that makes SO much sense