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Java Java Basics Getting Started with Java IO

Mihai Vancea
Mihai Vancea
10,476 Points
Posted by Mihai Vancea
Mihai Vancea
10,476 Points

Challenge 3 failing

Error says:

Bummer! Did you forget to pass the firstName parameter to the printf function?

Code attached.

Thanks

IO.java 
// I have imported java.io.Console for you.  It is a variable called console.
String firstName = "Mihai";
String lastName = "Vancea";
console.readLine(firstName);
console.readLine(lastName);
console.printf("First name:%s",firstName);

2 Answers

Axel McCode
Axel McCode
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Axel McCode
Axel McCode
13,869 Points

What went wrong is that you did not properly initialize the variables to console.readLine. In the following code, both variables are initialized to what results from console.readLine()

String firstName = console.readLine("Enter your first name: ");
String lastName = console.readLine("Enter your last name: ");
console.printf("First name: %s", firstName);
Mihai Vancea
Mihai Vancea
10,476 Points
Mihai Vancea
Mihai Vancea
10,476 Points

That worked, thanks.