How to display a specific message when wrong input entered?

Delisha Cogdell

I am a newbie in C# Programming. I have no prior experience. I am taking a online introduction class in Visual C# How to Program. I don't know how to make my program display a "No Height was Entered." when the end-user types a letter instead of an number when the program asks the question-Console.WriteLine("Enter the height of the student in inches or -1 to stop.");

Here is the question I'm trying to solve: Write a program that calculates the average height of a class of students. The teacher will enter the height of each student in inches one by one. When the teacher has no more height to enter, she will enter -1 to stop data entry. Display the total height, the number of students in the class and the average height of the students. If no height was entered, display “No height was entered.”.

Here is the work I've done in MS Visual Studio 2017. Please keep in mind this is the beginning of an Introduction course so Advanced concepts will go over my head write now. The test is to keep this code as basic as possible. so far I have learned about While loops, Conditional operators, logical operators, Negation, counters, and increment/decrement operators.

I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide.

// if no height entered, display "No Height was entered". ?????
{ // calculate avg height of students.-done
// Teacher will enter height in inches for students one by one.-done
// when no more height, using -1 to stop data entry-done
// Display total height, number of students and average height-done
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
int height;
int totalHeight = 0;
int numStudents = 0; //counter variable needed
double avgHeight; //get average of height
Console.WriteLine("Enter the height of the student in inches or -1 to stop.");
height = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
while (height != -1)
{
totalHeight = totalHeight + height;
numStudents = numStudents + 1;
Console.WriteLine("Enter the height of the student in inches or -1 to stop.");
height = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
}
Console.WriteLine("Total height: {0}", totalHeight);
Console.WriteLine("Total number of students: {0}", numStudents);
if (numStudents > 0)
{
avgHeight = totalHeight / numStudents;
}
else
{
avgHeight = 0;
}
Console.WriteLine("Average Height for students: {0}.", avgHeight);
}
}
}

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Dharmraj Thakur8y ago
Accepted answer
Hello,

I updated your code in working condition and easier manner... Please review and understand what I did... Ask if any query in this code...
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        int height = 0;
        int totalHeight = 0;
        int numStudents = 0; //counter variable needed
        while (height != -1)
        {
            totalHeight += height;
            numStudents++;
            Console.WriteLine("Enter the height of the student in inches or -1 to stop.");
            try
            {
                height = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("You Entered Incorrect Height\n");
            }
        }

        if (totalHeight > 0)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("\n********** Result ************\n");
            Console.WriteLine("Total height: {0}", totalHeight);
            Console.WriteLine("Total number of students: {0}", numStudents);
            Console.WriteLine("Average Height for students: {0}.", totalHeight / numStudents);
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("No height was entered");
        }
        Console.ReadKey();
    }
}
+1
Rahul8y ago
I have updated your code the way you want -

static void Main(string[] args)

{

int height;

int totalHeight = 0;

int numStudents = 0; //counter variable needed

double avgHeight; //get average of height

Console.WriteLine("Enter the height of the student in inches or -1 to stop.");

string _val = "";

ConsoleKeyInfo key;

do

{

key = Console.ReadKey(true);

if (key.Key != ConsoleKey.Backspace)

{

double val = 0;

bool _x = double.TryParse(key.KeyChar.ToString(), out val);

if (_x)

{

_val += key.KeyChar;

Console.Write(key.KeyChar);

}

}

else

{

if (key.Key == ConsoleKey.Backspace && _val.Length > 0)

{

_val = _val.Substring(0, (_val.Length - 1));

Console.Write("\b \b");

}

}

}

// Stops Receving Keys Once Enter is Pressed

while (key.Key != ConsoleKey.Enter);

height = int.Parse(_val);

while (height != -1)

{

totalHeight = totalHeight + height;

numStudents = numStudents + 1;

Console.WriteLine(); // Adding for just one newline

Console.WriteLine("Enter the height of the student in inches or -1 to stop.");

height = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

}

Console.WriteLine("Total height: {0}", totalHeight);

Console.WriteLine("Total number of students: {0}", numStudents);

if (numStudents > 0)

{

avgHeight = totalHeight / numStudents;

}

else

{

avgHeight = 0;

}

Console.WriteLine(); // Adding for just one newline

Console.WriteLine("Average Height for students: {0}.", avgHeight);

Console.ReadLine();

}

Feel free to write me if you need more assistance.

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