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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

FEI LI
FEI LI
828 Points
Posted by FEI LI
FEI LI
828 Points

No overload for method `ReadLine' takes `1' arguments

I don't understand...

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()

        {   int numberOfPrint=0;
            Console.ReadLine(numberOfPrint);
            Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\":numberOfPrint");
            while (numberOfPrint>0)
            {Console.Write("Yay!");
             numberOfPrint--;
            }

        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

The message is telling you that ReadLine doesn't take any arguments.

But when you called it, you passed it "numberOfPrint" as an argument instead of leaving the parentheses empty.

I'd bet what you really meant to do is take the value that comes back from ReadLine, convert it into a number, and then assign that to "numberOfPrint".

And you probably want to do all that after you write out the message asking for a number.