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Jeremy Hansen
282 PointsWhat am I doing wrong?
Having issues with the console.readline concept. What am I doing wrong here
System.Console.Write("Enter a book title: ");
System.Console.ReadLine();
string bookTitle = " My Favorite Book";
2 Answers
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 PointsHey Jeremy,
You have all the correct elements there, just not quite being used the right way.
First, the challenge did not ask for a "Hard-Coded" string being assigned to the variable bookTitle. This is supposed to hold what the user enters into the ReadLine() method. So, you need to be assigning this to the variable instead of a hard-coded value. Basically, you just need to (more or less) combine those two lines of code like so:
System.Console.Write("Enter a book title: ");
string bookTitle = System.Console.ReadLine();
Keep Coding!
Steven Parker
231,248 PointsYou need to store the response from calling ReadLine.
Calling the function doesn't do anything unless you save the return value somewhere. I see you created the variable on the next line but you stored a literal string in it.
So you just need to eliminate that string and re-arrange the other stuff so that you create the variable and store the result of calling the function into it.