Help with user inputs for c#

I have recently started c#. I love it. I used to code in basic, but now C# has incorparated the easiness of basic and some of the features of C++. I was wondering if anyone could help me with user input. I would like to create a number guessing game. Ex: Im a even number. I am between 10 and 50. I am not any 30's though. Say the number was 28. How could the user input 28? I would do something like using System; public class Age { public static void Main() { Console.WriteLine("Please input your age."); string line = Console.ReadLine(); Console.WriteLine("You can now smoke!"); } } Something like that. One last question. How could I make it so if you say your 21 then It would say "You can drink beer!" and like if your 18 "You can smoke" and etc.? How could I make it determine the age inputed and print special messages basically? TIA 8raker

You must use the Parse method of the datatype you want. If you write int.Parse("28"); it converts the string "28" to int 28. This can also be done with other datatypes like long, double etc... To give additional information at certain ages you can use the switch case statement like demonstrated in the sample. using System; namespace ConsoleTesting { class Age { static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Im a even number. I am between 10 and 50. I am not any 30's though.\n"); int input = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine()); Console.WriteLine("\n"); switch(input) { case 18: Console.WriteLine("You can now smoke!"); break; case 21: Console.WriteLine("You can now drink beer!"); break; } Console.Read(); } } } I hope thi helps :)