C# 0 The Complete Reference

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Enter some characters.

This is a test.

You entered: This is a test.

Although the 

Console

 methods are the easiest way to read from 

Console.In

, you can 

call methods on the underlying 

TextReader

. For example, here is the preceding program 

rewritten to use the 

ReadLine( )

 method defined by 

TextReader

:

// Read a string from the keyboard, using Console.In directly.

using System;

class ReadChars2 {

  static void Main() {

    string str;

    Console.WriteLine("Enter some characters.");

    str = Console.In.ReadLine(); // call TextReader's ReadLine() method

    Console.WriteLine("You entered: " + str);

  }

}

Notice how 

ReadLine( )

 is now invoked directly on 

Console.In

. The key point here is that 

if you need access to the methods defined by the