why is this true? Very thankful for any help :)

Question

int age;
bool can_drink;
Console.Write("Enter your age: ");
age=Console.Read();
can_drink=(age>=21)? true:false;
Console.Write(can_drink);

input(3)
Output: true
:/

Answer 1

I get it now, thank you both :)

Answer 2

Thank you all, especially Sachin! Why does the conversion affect the output?

Answer 3

To David, when I entered 22 it was still true. I even entered negative numbers, and it still evaluated to true. I tried Sachin's method, worked like a charm :), though I don't know why

Answer 4

There is, I was just playing around with ternary if :)

Answer 5

I somewhere read that, only the use of-
Console.Read() ot Console.ReadLine() takes input as a string, but here you need integer, that's why I convert the input into integer using-
Convert.ToInt32()

Answer 6

:)

Answer 7

Try this-

int age;
bool can_drink;
Console.Write("Enter your age: ");
age= Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
can_drink=(age>=21)?true:false;
Console.Write(can_drink);

Answer 8

its there no sort of "if" statements for c#?

Answer 9

oh... what happends if you input is 22?

Answer 10

ok

Answer 11

bro sinahtoowart Upright

Answer 12

To all the people who are confused as to why that fixes the problem. I THINK it's because ReadLine() returns a string. So you have to convert/parse that string to get an int out of it.