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C# C# Basics (Retired) Perfect Final

John Krueger
John Krueger
1,996 Points
Posted by John Krueger
John Krueger
1,996 Points

Loop won't break.

Trying to make program that prints "Yay!" to console as many times as user enters into the console. My program will start printing "Yay!" but will not stop. Don't know why my loop does not break.

Program.cs 
using System;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            Console.Write("Enter the number of times to print \"Yay!\": ");
            int entry = Console.Read();
            int i = 1;
            while (entry >=1)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Yay!");
                i += 1;
                if (i > entry)
                {
                    break;
                }
                else
                {
                    continue;
                }
            }



        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

You may be using the wrong input function.

The Console.Read function returns the character code (not the value represented) of a single character.

You might want to use a different function that would read the entire input as a string, and then use another one to convert the string into the value it represents.

John Krueger
John Krueger
1,996 Points
John Krueger
John Krueger
1,996 Points

thnak you that helps.