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:
*********************************
Dim area as String
Dim txtbox as string

txtbox= "txtArea" & num
area=txtbox.text
***********************************

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



3 Replies

PJ Poornima Joy Balan Syncfusion Team April 23, 2007 04:21 AM UTC

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


WR wrkrishna April 23, 2007 06:47 AM UTC

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



SU subashini January 28, 2008 11:22 AM UTC

Hi poornima

I am subazini, on doing postback with VB the webbrowser is not processing I have missed all of urs number plz send ur mobile number to my ID
[email protected]

Regards subazini


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