How to show details in separate line, rather than in same line-CodePudding

Hope everyone is well,

I am a newb to C# and starting an online class soon however I have been doing my own thing and I am stuck with wanting to make a change to the below code

Console.Write("Input First Name: "); string firstName = Console.ReadLine();

        Console.Write("Input Last Name: ");
        string lastName = Console.ReadLine();

        Console.Write("Input your Email: ");
        string email = Console.ReadLine();

        Console.Write("Input your D.O.B: ");
        string dob = Console.ReadLine();

        string details = $"Full detail is: {firstName} {lastName} {email} {dob}";
        Console.WriteLine(details);

However, the result shows the details all in one line in command prompt, I would like to show the firstName, lastName, email and dob in seperate lines.

I would appriciate your advise/guide on this.

Thank you

CodePudding user response：

Use \n in your output string {firstName}\n{lastName} etc.

CodePudding user response：

You can use "\n" in your String, like the following:

string details = $"Full detail is: {firstName}\n{lastName}\n{email}\n{dob}";

The "\n" indicates a line break. You can read more here about Character Escapes!

CodePudding user response：

Try with:

        string details = $"Full detail is:\r\n{firstName}\r\n{lastName}\r\n{email}\r\n{dob}";
        Console.WriteLine(details);
        //You can also use Environment.NewLine as new line separator,
        // but in this case it makes the output not very readable



        //Or just:
        Console.WriteLine("Full detail is:");
        Console.WriteLine(firstName);
        Console.WriteLine(lastName);
        Console.WriteLine(email);
        Console.WriteLine(dob);

Console.Write won't add a new line at end of the output.

Console.WriteLine does add a new line at the end of the ouput

CodePudding user response：

You can use \n as a new line separator, however, it's recommended to use Environment.NewLine which would give \r\n in Windows, and \n in Unix based environments. This would ensure cross-platform compatibility.

example :

string details = $"Full detail is: {firstName}{Environment.NewLine}{lastName}{Environment.NewLine}{email}{Environment.NewLine}{dob}";

CodePudding user response：

Everybody has been suggesting the \n or {Environment.NewLine} which is a very much correct way to doing what you asked but for the sake of educating you use the special character @ which serves as a verbatim identifier. E.g.

    string lastName = "Bob";
    string email = "[email protected]";
    string dob = "12-07-2022";

    string details = @$"Full detail is:
    {lastName}
    {email}
    {dob}";

CodePudding user response：

You can try joining with Environment.NewLine delimiter:

Console.WriteLine(
  $"Full detail is: {string.Join(Environment.NewLine, firstName, lastName, email, dob)}");