C#•8mo ago

I'm getting a red squiggly line under alphabet.IndexOf() and I don't understand what is the problem

I was converting my python code to C# code to see my skill in both and I got a issue on the alphabet.IndexOf() something about overloaded CS1501 is the errors name also could it be that it's because there is a index argument inside this is what it looks like alphabet.IndexOf(plainText[i]) one more thing the program is a cipher program here is the code

c#
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace cipher
{
    public class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Type encode to encrypt, type decode to decrypt: ");
            string direction = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.WriteLine("Type your message:");
            string text = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.WriteLine("Type the shift number:");
            string shift = Console.ReadLine();       
        }

        void encrypt(string plainText, string shiftAmount)
        {
            char[] alphabet = new char[] { 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n',
            'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'};

            string cipher_text;

            for (int i = 0; i < plainText.Length; i++)
            {
                int position = alphabet.IndexOf(plainText[i]);
            }

        }
    }
}

c#
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace cipher
{
    public class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Type encode to encrypt, type decode to decrypt: ");
            string direction = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.WriteLine("Type your message:");
            string text = Console.ReadLine();

            Console.WriteLine("Type the shift number:");
            string shift = Console.ReadLine();       
        }

        void encrypt(string plainText, string shiftAmount)
        {
            char[] alphabet = new char[] { 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n',
            'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'};

            string cipher_text;

            for (int i = 0; i < plainText.Length; i++)
            {
                int position = alphabet.IndexOf(plainText[i]);
            }

        }
    }
}

1 Reply

Jc!OP•8mo ago

I'm also not done because I stopped half-way to try and figure out the issue but I couldn't get anywhere ohhhhhhhhh oh should I use collections? like a list collection oh ok thank you sir how do I close thx actually I still don't get it the IndexOf is a static method of the type Array

c#
    for (int i = 0; i < plainText.Length; i++)
    {
        int position = alphabet.IndexOf(alphabet, plainText[]);
    }

c#
    for (int i = 0; i < plainText.Length; i++)
    {
        int position = alphabet.IndexOf(alphabet, plainText[]);
    }

uhhh damn wow ok I gotta brush up on types in C# thx

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I'm getting a red squiggly line under alphabet.IndexOf() and I don't understand what is the problem