reading two integers in one line using C#
i know how to make a console read two integers but each integer by it self like this
int a = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
int b = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
if i entered two numbers, i.e (1 2), the value (1 2), cant be parse to integers what i want is if i entered 1 2 then it will take it as two integers
One option would be to accept a single line of input as a string and then process it. For example:
//Read line, and split it by whitespace into an array of strings
string[] tokens = Console.ReadLine().Split();
//Parse element 0
int a = int.Parse(tokens[0]);
//Parse element 1
int b = int.Parse(tokens[1]);
One issue with this approach is that it will fail (by throwing an IndexOutOfRangeException
/ FormatException
) if the user does not enter the text in the expected format. If this is possible, you will have to validate the input.
For example, with regular expressions:
string line = Console.ReadLine();
// If the line consists of a sequence of digits, followed by whitespaces,
// followed by another sequence of digits (doesn't handle overflows)
if(new Regex(@"^\d+\s+\d+$").IsMatch(line))
{
... // Valid: process input
}
else
{
... // Invalid input
}
Alternatively:
- Verify that the input splits into exactly 2 strings.
- Use
int.TryParse
to attempt to parse the strings into numbers.
You need something like (no error-checking code)
var ints = Console
.ReadLine()
.Split()
.Select(int.Parse);
This reads a line, splits on whitespace and parses the split strings as integers. Of course in reality you would want to check if the entered strings are in fact valid integers (int.TryParse).