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Asked: 2026-06-05T02:56:56+00:00

I have this piece of code which reads and displays input strings until a

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I have this piece of code which reads and displays input strings until a hello is entered.

string x;
do
{
    x = Console.ReadLine();
    Console.WriteLine ("{0}\n",x);
}
while (x != "hello");

Here is a sample run:
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Here, as soon as the External Console appeared, I typed test first. But only est appeared. But as can be seen, the value is read correctly and test was written out. When I typed hello, it displayed ello, but read hello and terminated the loop.

I haven’t been able to pinpoint exactly when this occurs, but some of the times its because I would have typed the input string a little too quickly. Sometimes it displays quickly typed input without any problem. In the above screenshot, I typed test at normal speed.

Is this a bug or is this a dependency issue?

PS: I have xterm installed; I am on CrunchBang Linux, which is Debian based; Mono runtime is 2.6.7-5

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  1. Editorial Team

    Seems like it’s a bug with the way the window system renders characters from the standard input on your platform. I wouldn’t be concerned as long as the string you get contains all the text.

    I don’t think Mono is to blame here. I might have suspected Mono if it happened only during initial load – but since you state it happens at different times, I’m thinking it’s probably something peculiar with the OS.

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