November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
30h 51m
English
book
C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development - Third Edition
by Mark J. Price, Dustin Heffron, Efraim Kyriakidis
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The two most common tasks that a console application performs are writing and reading data. We have already been using the WriteLine method to output. If we didn't want a carriage return at the end of the lines, we could have used the Write method.
C# 6 and later has a handy feature named string interpolation. This allows us to easily output one or more variables in a nicely formatted manner. A string prefixed with $ can use curly braces around the name of a variable to output the current value of that variable at that position in the string.
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