Getting a error while create a simple class

osyris zosar

namespace AccountOrganizer
{
public class SetName
{
string[] MaleNames =
{ "Jack",
"Micheal",
"Mike",
"Jordan",
"James",
"William",
"David",
"Richard",
"Charles",
"Daniel",
"Kevin",
"Brian",
"George",
"Edward",
"Ronald",
"Jason",
"Jeffrey",
};
List<string> MaleNameList = new List<string>(MaleNames);
Random r = new Random();
int Random = r.Next(0, MaleNameList.Count());
string sethename = MaleNameList[Random];
}
}

I get an error on line 25 28 and 30 i dont really understand why,
am i not allowed to create a list and a random object in a class?

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Sachin Singh5y ago
Accepted answer
you can use getters and setters if you don't want to use methods
and the reason of error is due to the fact that you can not an instance variable to initialize another instance variable MaleNames and MaleNameList in your case.
Amit Gupta5y ago
Remove code from line 25-30 and use below one
public string GetRandom()
{
         int _random = new Random().Next(0, MaleNames.Count);
         return MaleNames[_random];
}
Amit Gupta5y ago
In addition to what @sachin said, you had declared int Random which is a Random class name, you never use a class name as a variable name, change it to

int _random and string sethename = MaleNameList[_random];
osyris zosar5y ago
How do i return "setthename" since it is a void,
and why do i need to declare a method?
Sachin Singh5y ago
how do you expect this to work, you need to declare a method
public class SetName
  {
      public List MaleNameList { get; set; }
      string[] MaleNames =
      {   "Jack",
          "Micheal",
          "Mike",
          "Jordan",
          "James",
          "William",
          "David",
          "Richard",
          "Charles",
          "Daniel",
          "Kevin",
          "Brian",
          "George",
          "Edward",
          "Ronald",
          "Jason",
          "Jeffrey",
      };



      public void GetRandom()
      {
          List MaleNameList = MaleNames.ToList(); // it is not required //though
          Random r = new Random();
          int Random = r.Next(0, MaleNames.Count());

          string sethename = MaleNameList[Random];
      }



  }