How can we trigger X when the user says y ANYWHERE

Question

For example

Console.WriteLine("Please input your age: ");
string age = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("Please input your first name: ");
string firstname = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("Please input your last name: ");
string lastname = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("Thank you!");

Now pretend I have something like this but with a lot of more questions. Then I wouldn't want to keep putting an if statement on each one. How would I make it run this code:

Console.WriteLine("beta")

whenever the user says "alpha" without putting if statements on each user input?

Answer 1

As already suggested, make a function that receives a prompt and returns the response. Inside that, you can check for "alpha" and output "beta", though I suspect that's not ~really~ what you need to do:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    string age = GetResponse("Please input your age: ");
    string firstname = GetResponse("Please input your first name: ");
    string lastname = GetResponse("Please input your last name: ");
    Console.WriteLine("Thank you!");
    Console.Write("Press Enter to Quit");
    Console.ReadLine();
}

static string GetResponse(string prompt)
{
    Console.Write(prompt);
    string response = Console.ReadLine();
    if (response == "alpha")
    {
        Console.WriteLine("beta");
    }
    return response;
}