Need help with Console

[Allen Maki]

//Hi there,

//I need help.

//If I run the program and entered 100 at the prompt, I will get 45.

//Which is a random number found in memory. Can anybody tell me what

//am I doing wrong?

#include "stdafx.h"

#using <mscorlib.dll>

using namespace System;

using namespace System::IO;

int _tmain()

{

//Read from Screen

Int32 K = Console::Read();

Console::Write(K);

return 0;

}

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Allen Maki <al*******@sbcglobal.netwrote:

//I need help.

//If I run the program and entered 100 at the prompt, I will get 45.

//Which is a random number found in memory. Can anybody tell me what

//am I doing wrong?

I suspect you actually got 49 - in which case it's not a random number
at all. It's the digit '1' in Unicode.
Console.Read() returns a single character - it doesn't take a whole
string and parse it into an integer

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