error! text is not a member of string------ how to resolve

hi,

in my app am having 6 text boxes named as txtArea1 to txtArea6... in the code i have to assign the text values of these text boxes to a string variable.

so ive used the following code:
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Dim area as String
Dim txtbox as string

txtbox= "txtArea" & num
area=txtbox.text
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am getting the following error msg:

text is not a member of string

how to resolve this.
kindly reply to my query as early as possible

thank u

Hello,

Here is the code of a example. I hope it will help it out.

txtbox = CType(Page.FindControl("txtArea" & num), TextBox).Text

Please let us know if you have any further queries.

Thanks,
Poornima

Thanks Poornima thanks a lot for your help.
It didnot work exactly in the way you have specified but it worked this way:

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Dim txtbox as control
txtbox= FindControl("txt_Area" &num)
area= CType(txtbox,TextBox).Text

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your hint helped me

thanks
bye
ravi

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