Try and catch

Question

I get an error asking me if i cought FormatException thrown by int.Parse using try and catch? can you look at my code and help me i don't understand what the problem is.. Thanks

Program.cs

using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");
            string input = Console.ReadLine();
            int times = 0;
           int broj = int.Parse(input);
           try 
           { 
           broj = int.Parse(input);

           }
            catch(FormatException)
            { 
            Console.Write("You must enter a whole number.");
            }

            while (times < broj)
            {
             times += 1;
              Console.Write("Yay!");
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1 · 2016-01-27T21:09:51Z

January 27, 2016 9:09pm

Simply declare the variable broj

int broj;

Then use

broj = int.Parse(input);

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