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Aman Dhally
Aman Dhally

Reputation: 75

The Name Does not Exists in the Current Context

I am relevantly new to C# coding. I am creating a Asp + C# website for C# learning and fun.I am stuck in a strange error.

What I am doing. Getting username from a textbox, Converting the name to the char arrary, and then trying to join add arrays as per their value described on the switch statement.

but, it is showing me red squiggly lines in all my switch statement, showing me , The Name Does not Exists in the Current Context .

Any clue, how to fix it?

name = TextBoxName.Text.ToString();
var number = 0;
char[] arr = name.ToCharArray();
foreach (var nameChar in arr)
{
    switch (nameChar)
    {
        case A:
            number += 1;
        case B:
            number += 2;
        case C:
            number += 3;
        case D:
            number += 4;
        case E:
            number += 5;
        case F:
            number += 5;
        case G:
            number += 7;
        case H:
            number += 8;
        case I:
            number += 9;
        case J:
            number += 10;
        case K:
            number += 11;
        case L:
            number += 12;
        case M:
            number += 13;
        case N:
            number += 14;
        case O:
            number += 15;
        case P:
            number += 16;
        case Q:
            number += 17;
        case R:
            number += 18;
        case S:
            number += 19;
        case T:
            number += 20;
        case U:
            number += 21;
        case V:
            number += 22;
        case W:
            number += 23;
        case X:
            number += 24;
        case Y:
            number += 25;
        case Z:
            number += 26;
        default:
    }
};

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3931

Answers (7)

Aman Dhally
Aman Dhally

Reputation: 75

Thanks, everyone, thanks for your valuable inputs and suggestions.

It is solved, and the issues were.

  • missing break;

  • Need to add '' in A: 'A'

  • In foreach loop I have mentioned var nameChar and I have changed it to char namechar

  • and need to add .ToUpper in the textbox.Text

When we learning something new, mistakes do happen :) and thanks for correcting them.

Upvotes: 1

Pranay Rana
Pranay Rana

Reputation: 176896

For Switch you can check on msnd over here : switch (C# Reference)

you need to do like this, my mean to say you misssed quote here 

  case 'A':

and you also missed break statment here so it will be like 

     case 'A':
        number += 1;
        break;
    case 'B':
        number += 2;
        break;

Upvotes: 4

Nagaraj S
Nagaraj S

Reputation: 13484

If you are using string use "A" 

       case "A":
            number += 1;
         break;

or simply 

           case 'A':
                number += 1;
             break;

Upvotes: 0

user247702
user247702

Reputation: 24212

Others have pointed out your error, but please don't use code like that. Try something like this instead:

const string letters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
char[] arr = name.ToUpper().ToCharArray();
foreach (var nameChar in arr)
{
    number += letters.IndexOf(nameChar) + 1;
};

Upvotes: 4

YJ Chen
YJ Chen

Reputation: 119

you should use 'A' instead of A

Upvotes: -2

c0d3junk13
c0d3junk13

Reputation: 1162

You are giving potential variable names not characters as the value is expected so tr 'A' instead of A etc

Upvotes: -2

Paweł Bejger
Paweł Bejger

Reputation: 6366

To use chars in C# you need to use the apostrophies. And to separate different cases between each other you need to you "break" at the end of each case: 

case 'A':
     number += 1;
     break;

Upvotes: 3

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