reading-text.md

Reading a Text from the Console

To read a text (string) from the console, again, we have to declare a new variable and use the standard command for reading a text from the console:

var str = Console.ReadLine();

By default, the Console.ReadLine(…) method returns a text result – a text line, read from the console.

• After you read a text from the console, additionally, you can parse the text to an integer by int.Parse(…) or a floating-point number by double.Parse(…).
• If parsing to a number is not done, each number will simply be text, and we cannot do arithmetic operations with it.

Video: Reading Text from the Console

Watch a video lesson about how to read text from the console: https://youtu.be/0tzvEdWxZ1k.

Example: Greeting by Name

Let's write a program that asks the user for their name and salutes them with the text "Hello, <name>!".

var name = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("Hello, {0}!", name);

In this case the {0} expression is replaced with the first passed argument, which holds the variable name. If we enter "John", the output will be as follows:

Testing in the Judge System

Test your solution here: https://judge.softuni.org/Contests/Practice/Index/504#2.