String error on simple text game

Wed, 20 May 2009 14:20:00 -0700

Take a look at the program bellow.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace TextAdventureGame
{
    class adventure
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            string person;
            string occupation;
            string seaCreature;
            string animal;
            string friend;
            string tool;
            string problem;

            Console.WriteLine("Simple Adventure Game");

            Console.Write("What is your name? ");
            person = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.Write("What is your occupation? ");
            occupation = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.Write("Please tell me your favorite animal: ");
            animal = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.Write("What is the name of your friend? ");
            friend = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.Write("Name a problem you might face: ");
            problem = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.Write("Name a tool: ");
            tool = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.Write("Please give me the name of a sea creature: ");
            seaCreature = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine();
            
            //write the story
            Console.WriteLine("One day there was a person named {0}. Now, {0} was usually ", person);
            Console.WriteLine("very content to work as a {0}, but sometimes the job", occupation);
            Console.WriteLine("was very difficult.");
            Console.WriteLine("One day, {0} discovered that the heardbreak of {1} had ", person, problem);
            Console.WriteLine("occured just one time to often. \"I can't stand being a ");
            Console.WriteLine("{0} any more!\" yelled {1}, as he hurled away his ", occupation, person);
            Console.WriteLine("{0} in anger, No {1} will keep me from fulfilling", tool, problem);
            Console.WriteLine("My dreams! What I really want, said {0}, is to be just like ", person);
            Console.WriteLine("{0). Now THAT'S somebody to admire. So {1} put away the ", friend, person);
            Console.WriteLine("{0} forever, and followed {1} into the pastoral", tool, friend);
            Console.WriteLine("world of {0}-ranching. Eventually, {1} was able to ", animal, person);
            Console.WriteLine("retire, as happy as {0}", seaCreature);

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine();

            //Ask for Enter to quite
            Console.Write("Press Enter to continue!");
            Console.ReadLine();

        } //end Main
    } //end class
} //end namespace

When I compile the program in MS Visual C# 2008 it runs the program until it gets to the line

Console.WriteLine("{0). Now THAT'S somebody to admire. So {1} put away the ", friend, person);

The program does not run after that point and the compiler says that somethings wrong with my string formating. I got this program from the book "Microsoft C# Programming for the absolute beginner"

Can someone please help me out I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Re: String error on simple text game

Thu, 21 May 2009 12:53:22 -0700

you have a close paran ')' instead of a close bracket '}' for your 0 variable in your format string.
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Re: String error on simple text game

Thu, 21 May 2009 13:48:30 -0700

Thanks for the help.

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