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C# Querying With LINQ Now You're Querying Selecting, Projecting and Anonymous Types

Posted by Samuel Lebender
Samuel Lebender
5,119 Points

"Unexpected symbol mysteryBird" Error message when I am doing exactly as told in the lesson

Hello, I've been following the lessons and I'm trying to complete this current problem but nothing I do works. No matter how well aligned it is with the instructions I am told. Furthermore if I name the var a single character instead of mysteryBird the code compiles but I am unable to turn it in because I have to name the var mysteryBird.

Thanks in advance

CodeChallenge.cs 
var birds = new[] 
{ 
    new { Name = "Pelican", Color = "White" }, 
    new { Name = "Swan", Color = "White" }, 
    new { Name = "Crow", Color = "Black" },
    var mysteryBird = new {Color = "White", Sightings = 3}


};

1 Answer

Ismael Liriano
Ismael Liriano
11,490 Points

Hi Samuel! You're not totally wrong. The thing is, that the challenge is asking you to create a new variable outside the initialization of the bird array. Like this:

var birds = new[] 
{ 
    new { Name = "Pelican", Color = "White" }, 
    new { Name = "Swan", Color = "White" }, 
    new { Name = "Crow", Color = "Black" } 
};

var mysteryBird = new { Color = "White", Sightings = 3};

You don't have to instantiate another anonymous object within the array.

Samuel Lebender
Samuel Lebender
5,119 Points

Thank you so much! I was legit at a loss for what to do.

once again thank you! :)