Working With Console Class

• Console is a class used to work with Input and Output streams
• Console class is present in system Namespace

Methods / Functions with Console class

1. Write(“Message”)
2. WriteLine(“Message”)
3. Read( )
4. ReadLine( )
5. Clear( ) 

 1.Write(“Message”)

• This method is used to display any message to the user in the output stream
• After displaying the message blinking cursor remains in the same line
• Ex: Console.Write(“Welcome”);
• O / p: Welcome_

2.WriteLine(“Message”)

• This method is used to display required message to the user on the output stream
• After displaying the message blinking cursor moves to a new line
• Ex: Console.WriteLine(“Welcome”)
• O / p: Welcome

3.Read()

• This method is used to read a single character from the input stream

4.ReadLine()

• This method is used to read a group of character from the input stream

5.Clear()

• This method is used to delete the contents of screen and same as clrscr( ) in c / c++

Reading the Data from the User

• To Read the data from the user there are 2 methods available

         1)    ReadLine( )

        2)    Read( )

Differences between Read and ReadLine

SNO	Read(  )	ReadLine(  )
01	Reads Single / Next Character from the Input Stream	Reads Group of Characters from the Input  Stream
02	Reads Maximum of only 1 character	Reads Maximum of 255 characters (Limit of OS Command prompt)
03	Reads ASCII value of the integer	Reads string value of the Character(s)
04	Return Type is int / integer	Return Type is string