How to read char from the console

Question

I have a char array and I want to assign values from the console. Here\'s my code:

char[] input = new char[n];
for (int i = 0; i < input.Leng         


        

Answer 1

Use Console.ReadKey and then KeyChar to get char, because ConsoleKeyInfo is not assignable to char as your error says.

input[i] = Console.ReadKey().KeyChar;

Answer 2

Quick example to play around with:

    public static void DoThis(int n)
    {
        var input = new char[n];
        for (var i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
        {
            input[i] = Console.ReadKey().KeyChar;
        }

        Console.WriteLine(); // Linebreak
        Console.WriteLine(input);

        Console.ReadKey();
    }

Answer 3

Grab the first character of the String being returned by Console.ReadLine()

char[] input = new char[n];
for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
{
    input[i] = Console.ReadLine()[0];
}

This will throw away all user input other than the first character.