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[TcM]

Well as most of you know I started C#, but at school it is going really slow. So I am going to start asking some questions here. Ok so what I want is to make a console application, input some marks and read them to a variable, output them onto the screen and work the total and average. now all I need is to know how to read the user input into a variable, I have the rest done.

Thanks. I remember in Pascal I used to do something like

Readln(variablename);

now is it the same thing in C#? But change ReadLn to

Console.ReadLine(variablename);

Because I tried it but didn't work
I know this might be the noobest question, but in VB6.0 I'm not familiar with console.

Thanks!

[Lop]

You almost got it, the correct code is:

string variablename = Console.ReadLine();

[TcM]

Thanks, but does this mean I cannot write to byte or integers? because as soon as I tried it showed some errors that it was supposed to be a string.

[v0id]

If you want to read integers, then you shall use Console.Read()

int VariableName = Console.Read();

More information on MSDN, right here.

[TcM]

When I do that it shows me the error:

Quote

.....\ConsoleApplication1\Class1.cs(16): Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'int'

[TcM]

Well at school we used another method last Monday.
We declared the variable at the start of the program and then we used the parse command like this:

variablename = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine);

[v0id]

There's a lot of ways to receive input, so you shall not be surprised when you see some new ways. It's not only like that in C#, but in many other languages as well.

[TcM]

I think it is interesting, but what is the use of all these methods if they all lead to the same result?

[v0id]

It's a coincidence that there's multiple ways to receive input. The language designers didn't sit down, and thought about how many ways they could make it possible to receive input in the language.

[TcM]

Lol - That sounded funny :D