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C# C# Basics (Retired) Console I/O Formatting Output

Tirth Upadhyay
Tirth Upadhyay
920 Points

What am i doing wrong here?

it says: Use Console.WriteLine to print the contents of the firstName variable to the screen.

what am i doing wrong here?

CodeChallenge.cs
string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
    Console.WriteLine = ( firstName );

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

In short: an extra equals sign. Remember an equals is an assignment operator. And WriteLine is a method on the Console object. We generally send in information in the parentheses. This is what it's looking for:

string firstName = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine (firstName);