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c#visual-studio-2010asciiconsole-application
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers

Reputation: 21

Microsoft Visual Studio, how to code so that a ASCII will display on my console application?

I want to incorporate an ASCII image as it can be seen here or something like that, on my console application but I am not sure how to get it in there I have been trying:

console.writeline("");

but that does not seem to work.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3923

Answers (2)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 613282

This

Console.WriteLine(@"                             ud$$$**$$$$$$$bc.");
Console.WriteLine(@"                          u@**""        4$$$$$$$Nu");
Console.WriteLine(@"                        J                ""#$$$$$$r");
Console.WriteLine(@"                       @                       $$$$b");
Console.WriteLine(@"                     .F                        ^*3$$$");
Console.WriteLine(@"                    :% 4                         J$$$N");
Console.WriteLine(@"                    $  :F                       :$$$$$");
Console.WriteLine(@"                   4F  9                       J$$$$$$$");
Console.WriteLine(@"                   4$   k             4$$$$bed$$$$$$$$$");

works for me. I added an @ before the strings to disable escape characters and I had to double up any quotes so that they did not get interpreted as the end of the string.

So, if you write 

Console.WriteLine("\n");

then that gets interpreted as a newline. But

Console.WriteLine(@"\n");

will emit \n to the console.

Similarly you can't write

Console.WriteLine(@" u@**"    ");

That's probably the cause of the errors you have seen. Hence you would write:

Console.WriteLine(@" u@**""    ");

Anyway, although that makes it work it's much better to put the ASCII art in a text file or a resource and get at it that way – that avoids all these pitfalls.

Upvotes: 5

B-Rad
B-Rad

Reputation: 381

If the ascii image is stored in a file you could use a stream reader and Console.WriteLine(). Make sure you check your code for case-sensitivity. console.writeline(""); is not the same as Console.WriteLine("");.

Upvotes: 0

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