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Stepas Loiba
11,180 Pointshey,help handling try,catch loop break,or fixing decimal entry.
can't break loop in my code when putting decimals its repeat everything,but works with entring string.please give some tips where to look in.thank you in advance.
using System;
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
var index = -1;
Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");
string entry = Console.ReadLine();
try
{
var times = double.Parse(entry);
while (true)
{
var value = ++index;
if (value == times)
{
break;
}
Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
}
}
catch (FormatException)
{
Console.WriteLine("not good expresion!try again!");
}
}
}
}
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
It looks like you have two issues:
The challenge says you should check for a FormatExeception "if the user enters a decimal or something that isn’t a number". But double.Parse will handle decimals and not produce an exception. You may want to use int.Parse instead to handle only integers.
Also, the challenge says that an exception should print the message "You must enter a whole number.", but your code would print "not good expresion!try again!" instead.
Stepas Loiba
11,180 PointsThank you Steve again for your feed back.Once again very useful and constructive feed back.Have nice day.
Steven Parker
231,248 PointsI'm happy to help. Happy coding! :sparkes: