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Now we’re ready to do something that’s more like an actual program. We’ll take our example of a function that takes an int and returns the string “hello,

this is the statement for defining a struct

// read a line of text

Console.Write(“Enter your name: “);

string name = Console.ReadLine();

// read another line of text

Console.Write(“Enter your age: “);

string age = Console.ReadLine();

// convert string to int

int iage = int.Parse(age);

// change integer to years left to live using arbitrary formula

int yearsLeft = 65 – iage;

// output result using semicolon to concatenate strings and ints into message for user

Console.WriteLine(“Hi ” + name + “. You have ” + yearsLeft + ” years left to live.”);