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Posted by babasariffodeen
babasariffodeen
6,475 Points

What does Console.WriteLine(Console.ReadLine)); do?

This is from the Console I/O video by Carling Kirk, as part of the C# Streams and Data Processing course.

I Do not understand why the ReadLine method is passed in as an argument into the WriteLine method.

Thanks

2 Answers

Izzatilla Karimov
Izzatilla Karimov
9,284 Points
Izzatilla Karimov
Izzatilla Karimov
9,284 Points

You must've got it wrong because Console.WriteLine( Will Print Out A String or the value u pit in it ) Console.ReadLine(); Will Read the line that u enter.. Example: Console.Write("Enter a number: "); Console.ReadLine(); //this will read the number that user put in var num = Console.ReadLine(); //or you can store in a variable then place the variable in the WriteLine as an argument...

babasariffodeen
babasariffodeen
6,475 Points

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. If you check out that video, it uses that. That's why I am confused, as I don;t know what it does.

THanks

Izzatilla Karimov
Izzatilla Karimov
9,284 Points
Izzatilla Karimov
Izzatilla Karimov
9,284 Points

Oh yeah, I went back to that course and i saw that i did not finish that objective...xD I watched the video again, and the objective is asking you to create string, string bookTitle; then the next step is asking to put value string bookTitle = "title of favorite book"; like this. thank for telling me to go back otherwise I wouldn't have done that objective myself xDD!