How do I print certain amount of characters?

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I'm a beginner at programming C#. I have a task which asks to create a program and input a symbol which needs to be printed, max number of symbols printed in one line and how many symbols you could print based on choice(for example like from 0-100 i input in console 54 and it prints out 54 symbols).

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Have tried looking on the internet for examples on how to input a certain amount of characters.

Posted 6-Sep-18 1:59am

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Updated 6-Sep-18 3:25am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2018-09-06T02:17:00

To input, you probably need to use Console.ReadLine:

C#

string input = Console.ReadLine();

You can then convert the second input to a number using TryParse:

C#

int count;
string countAsString = Console.ReadLine();
if (!int.TryParse(countAsString, out count))
   {
   Console.WriteLine("\"{0}\" is not a number!", countAsString);
   }
else
   {
   // count now contains the number the user entered.
   ... process your count and symbols here ...
   }