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I'm trying to write a very basic program to return the value of 2 elements in an array of string but the output is System.String[] instead of the actual value of the string. Is it because I have it two letters associated to 1 element. For example :

 static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string[] a = new string[2] { "ugly string", "lovely string" };
        foreach (var item in a)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(a);
        }
    }

It should return ugly string and lovely string in two separate lines. However it's just showing System.String[] in 2 different lines.

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    Console.WriteLine(item), not Console.WriteLine(a) Commented May 11, 2021 at 14:08
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    I don't think this is a typo, but rather a genuine lack of knowledge of the correct usage of control structures, even if it's trivial to fix. Voted to reopen. Commented May 11, 2021 at 14:13
  • This is probably a duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/12146723/… Commented May 11, 2021 at 14:17

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You need to change your line

Console.WriteLine(a);

to

Console.WriteLine(item);

foreach will make sure the for each (hence the name) iteration through the list called a the current value will be put into the variable named item.

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trying to learn the basics. Thank you. It worked.
@AkshayKhard think about what "a" and "item" represent in your code

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