Why I'm getting CS1012: “Too many characters in character literal” and CS0019?

Question

When trying to upload something to Imgur, I have to put an Authorization in. I do it with WebRequest.Headers but it gives me three errors.

2 times CS101

Answer 1

You're trying to use single quotes for string literals - that's invalid in C#. Single quotes are for character literals (char). You need double quotes for string literals. You also need parentheses for a method call:

webRequest.Headers["Authorization"] = "Bearer " + GetToken();

(Note that this has nothing to do with imgur or WebRequest - it's just normal C#.)

Links to MSDN explanations with samples:

• CS1012 - "Too many characters in character literal"
• CS0019 - "Operator 'operator' cannot be applied to operands of type 'type' and 'type'"