Line 16: Cannot figure out what wrong around the word quit?

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using System;

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

          int runningTotal = 0;
          bool keepGoing = true;

          while (keepGoing)
          {
            // Prompt the user for minutes exercised
          Console.Write("Enter how many minutes you exercised or type "quit" to exit: ");

            string entry = Console.ReadLine();

          if (entry == "quit")
            {
              keepGoing = false;
            }
          else 
          {

          int minutes = int.Parse(entry);

            if(minutes <=10)
            {
              Console.WriteLine("Better than nothing, right?");
            }
            else if (minutes <=30)
            {
              Console.WriteLine("Way to go hot stuff!");
            }
            else if (minutes <=60)
            {
              Console.WriteLine("You must be a ninja warrior in training!");
            }
            else (minutes >=60)
            {
              Console.WriteLine("Ok now you are just showing off!!");
            }
          }

          runningTotal = runningTotal + minutes;

          // Add minutes exercised to total
          // Display total minutes exercised to the screen

          Console.WriteLine("You've entered " + runningTotal + "                 minutes");
          }
          // Repeat until the user quits
          }

         Console.WriteLine("GoodBye!");
  }

}

Answer 1 · 2016-10-05T06:59:32Z

October 5, 2016 6:59am

The word quit is outside the string and confuses the compiler.

Your string is defined by quotes ("), so if you also put quotes around a word in the string, it is considered not part of the string. To make the quotes (and the word inside them) part of the string you must escape the quotes with backslash (). Here's an example:

Console.Write("Enter how many minutes you exercised or type "quit" to exit: ");    // original
Console.Write("Enter how many minutes you exercised or type \"quit\" to exit: ");  // escaped

Notice how the syntax coloring clearly shows that quit in the first line is not part of the string.

Now that issue is taken care of, I noticed two other things that might need fixing:

the line with "else (minutes >=60)" seems to be missing an "if", but it could also be left as just "else" since the other cases are already accounted for.
the line with "Console.WriteLine("GoodBye!");" is actually outside the method, and should be moved inside.

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James Mackey

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Line 16: Cannot figure out what wrong around the word quit?

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Steven Parker

Steven Parker

The word quit is outside the string and confuses the compiler.

James Mackey

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