Difference between Console Read and Console ReadLine

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I m new to this field and I m very confused  what is the real difference between Console Read   and Console ReadLine

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These are the methods of system console   ReadKey    returns a character   reads only one single character from the standard input stream or command line  Usually used when you re giving options to the user in the console to select from  such as select A  B or C  Another prominent example  Press Y or n to continue  ReadLine    returns a string   or Console Readline   reads a single line from the standard input stream or the command line  As an example  it can be used to ask the user enter their name or age  It reads all the character till we press enter  Read    returns an int   or Console Read   reads only one single character from the standard input stream  Similar to ReadKey except that it returns an integer  It returns the next character from the input stream  or returns  -1  if there is no more character to be read     There are more system console methods like write   and writeline   as well which are used to write in command line  behaving similarly as read   and readline   methods   This was clearly described with examples in the MSDN documentation  links are included above

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The difference of Read   ReadLine   and Readkey   method are given below   Read   This is static method in Console class   int i   Console Read     it always return int value  Console WriteLine i     paste above code and give input  1   and the output will be 49  That is Console Read give int value but that value will be the ASCII value of that   ReadLine     string s  Console ReadLine     it always return string value  Console WriteLine s     It gives the string as it is given in the input stream   ReadKey    this method is used to hold the output screen when any key is press  Read   and ReadLine   is used the enter key for exit

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Console Read   reads just a single character  while Console ReadLine   reads all characters until the end of line

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Console Read   reads only the next character from standard input   and Console ReadLine   reads the next line of characters from the standard input stream   Standard input in case of Console Application is input from the user typed words in console UI of your application  Try to create it by Visual studio  and see by yourself

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Console Read   is used to read next charater from the standard input stream  When we want to read only the single character then use Console Read     Console ReadLine   is used to read aline of characters from the standard input stream  when we want to read a line of characters use Console ReadLine

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Difference between Read   Readline   and ReadKey   in C   Read  -Accept the string value and return the string value  Readline   -Accept the string and return Integer ReadKey     -Accept the character and return Character  Summary   1 The above mentioned three methods are mainly used in Console application and these are used for return the different values   2 If we use Read line or Read   we need press Enter button to come back to code  3 If we using Read key   we can press any key to come back code in application

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Console Read   reads a single key  where Console Readline   waits for the Enter key

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Console Read    It only accepts a single character from user input and returns its ASCII Code  The data type should be int  because it returns an integer value as ASCII  ex - gt   int value   Console Read     Console ReadLine    It read all the characters from user input   and finish when press enter   It returns a String so data type should be String  ex - gt   string value   Console ReadLine     Console ReadKey    It read that which key is pressed by the user and returns its name  it does not require to press enter key before entering  It is a Struct Data type which is ConsoleKeyInfo  ex - gt   ConsoleKeyInfo key   Console ReadKey

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Console Read   basically reads a character so if you are on a console and you press a key then the console will close  meanwhile Console Readline   will read the whole string

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Console Read        reads only one character from the standard input  Console ReadLine        reads all characters in the line from the standard input

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The basic difference is   int i   Console Read    Console WriteLine i     paste  above code and give input  c   and the output will be 99  That is Console Read give int value but that value will be the ASCII value of that    On the other side    string s   Console ReadLine    Console WriteLine s     It gives the string as it is given in the input stream

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MSDN is actually pretty clear on this one    Console Read  Reads the next character from the standard input stream  Console ReadLine  Reads the next line of characters from the standard input stream

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