C# Data Structures and Algorithms

Reading from input

The application can read data from the standard input stream using a few methods from the Console static class from the System namespace, such as ReadLine and ReadKey. Both are presented in the examples in this section.

Let's take a look at the following line of code:

string fullName = Console.ReadLine(); 

Here, you use the ReadLine method. It waits until the user presses the Enter key. Then, the entered text is stored as a value of the fullName string variable.

In a similar way, you can read data of other types, such as int, as shown as follows:

string numberString = Console.ReadLine(); 
int.TryParse(numberString, out int number); 

In this case, the same ReadLine method is called and the entered text is stored as a value ...