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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Variable Scope

Pratham Patel
Pratham Patel
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Posted by Pratham Patel
Pratham Patel
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I don't understand this

Please help with this code challenge what do i need to do

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {            
            input = Console.ReadLine();

            if (input == "quit")
            {
                string output = "Goodbye.";
            }
            else
            {
                string output = "You entered " + input + ".";
            }

            Console.WriteLine(output);
        }
    }
}

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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The point of this challenge is to teach you how to debug code. As such, I'm uncomfortable giving a straight out answer on this one. Your best bet is to do the check work immediately before changing anything. Click the preview button to view the error messages. But here's a clue :bulb: when you see that the name "something" does not exist in the current context it can mean a couple of things. It can mean that a variable name is misspelled, it's not in the correct scope, or it hasn't been properly declared.

Take another shot at it! Good luck :smiley:

Cindy Lea
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Cindy Lea
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The important thing to look for is variable scope.