Cannot implicitly change from string to int

Question

int x = Console.ReadLine();

Console.WriteLine("You are {0} years old today!", x);

Whenever I put this code in, it tells me that I cannot implicitly change the variable from string to int, how may I work around this? I also wanted to add x++ so that it can show your age plus 1, however this isn’t applicable for string var, so that’s why I changed it. What should I do?

Answer 1

Use the static Convert class:
Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());