Need unique text in textboxes

[kornstyle]

I have a form with 26 textboxes on it. I need each textbox to have text that is unique from any other textbox on the form. What is an easy way to do this? Thanks

[Lost User]

Do you want to check whether the texts is unique or do you want to fill the textbox ?

[kornstyle]

I want to check if the text is unique from the other 25 textboxes on the form.

[eggsovereasy]

Well the simplest way I can think of off the top of my head is to put the text boxes in a List and use nested loops like: public bool ValidateTextBoxen() {   List<TextBox> textBoxen = new List<TextBox>();   textBoxen.Add(TextBox1);   textBoxen.Add(TextBox2);   ...   textBoxen.Add(TextBoxN);   for(int i = 0; i < textBoxen.Count; i++)   {     for(int k = 0; k < textBoxen.Count; k++)     {       if (textBoxen[i].Text == textBoxen[k].Text && i != k )         return false;     }   }   return true } -- modified at 15:37 Tuesday 25th July, 2006

[Ilia Blank]

Dictionary stringProbe = new Dictionary (); stringProbe[textBox1.Text] = null; ... stringProbe[textBox25.Text] = null; if (stringProbe.ContainsKey(mustBeUniqueTextBox.Text)) { // Text is not unique }else { //Text is unique }