Menu customization questions in C#

Question

I am trying to create a menu in C# Console app and I am trying to make it like this:

[1] Login
[2] Register
[3] Exit

But as you can see, I am manually inserting the number inside of the bracket, how would I make it so everytime I do Console.WriteLine(“test”) It would do it on its own like this: [1] test

This has been frustrating me for a little bit.

Answer 1

You can write your own method, which prints this indexes automatically.

public static class CustomConsole
{
    public static int Index {get;private set;} = 1;
    public static void WriteLine(String message)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"[{Index++}] {message}");
    }
}

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Usage:

CustomConsole.WriteLine("Login");
CustomConsole.WriteLine("Register");
CustomConsole.WriteLine("Exit");