Comments by fatand50 (Top 17 by date)

Oh yes Sir, that is why I also accepted the Solution. Thank you a lot.

Thank you Jibesh, this is just way to advanced for me. I will refer back to this one day. For now we are just introduced to basic concepts and we are also not allowed to use an built-in array methods for calculations. Stay blessed.

Thank you Matt and yes I understand your point about the exception handling, for now we are told to only consider using the the conversion and then the try anc catch blocks. Otherwise you are so right. Thank you a lot. Stay blessed.

When I add that statement I see a difference, at least now the invalid values are somehow discarded within the calculation of lowest value, however there are still some minor adjustments I have to do with my code. Thank you a lot all of you guys. Stay blessed.

Here are the ten values:
2; 12; r; 45; hello; 874.54; 200; g; K; 23

Note that these values: r;hello;g and K are regarded as invalidEntries. So my problem is instead of lowest to be =2, it becomes 0 because of one of the invalid entries.

Here are the ten values:
2; 12; r; 45; hello; 874.54; 200; g; K; 23

Okay I think I'm the one to blame, I did not explain what are the invalid values. Well invalid values are when a user can enter a string or char, a user is required to enter only numbers. So my problem is everytime a user enters an invalid value, the variable lowest is always 0. For example if amounts are as follows: 3; 56; 123; 7 instead of the lowest to be 3, it always becomes 0 if there is an invalid value entered.

Okay let me rather explain what I mean, invalid values are counted and then stored to invalidEntries variable, a value is invalid if a user can enter a wrong format. For example a user is required to enter only numbers. But if the user enters let's say 'K' Visual C# regards that as 0 and I don't know why, I want to find a way to make Visual C# discard that 0. Because even if there's 5 as a lowest value, but a user entered 'Z' or "Hello" lowest always becomes 0.

Well I hear your suggestion but at the moment I am only required to deal with Functions and Exception Handling on a book called Begining Visual C# 2010 (Chapter 6 & 7 only), and also the question is very strict that I must use out parameters. Thank you for your suggestion, I will refer back to it as we do advanced techniques.

Thanx, Griff gave me a solution. And I kind of now understand the whole concept.

Thank you a lot, now it makes sense, I now understand that when the 10 values are entered they will be stored directly to amounts and then (out) to the Main. I dont know if you get what I mean.

Thank you for your response, Well the thing is I want that method parameter to have values of an array that comes inside the GetSalesData method,hence I used the [ ] to indicate that the values are from only valid entries, hence on top there is an empty list that will store only valid values.