eval ?!?

[beastyboy]

Hello, Suppose I have 3 textboxes named: txtBox1, txtBox2 and txtBox3 Now for some reason I want to fill the boxes depending on their number: I mean something like this: txtBox(i).Text = "something" I know this is ridiculous but I hope you guys see what I mean. (something like the javascript eval function) Can I do something like that in VB-code?? Thanks for the comments respect 2B respected

[gnjunge]

Well, you can loop through the Controls collection of your page. Then check the type of the control (to see if it is indeed a textbox) and then get the id (which will be a string) and do your string manipulation on that. in code it would be something like:

      For Each oControl As Control In Me.Controls
            If oControl.GetType().Name = "TextBox" Then
                If oControl.ID = "txtBox1" Then
                    CType(oControl, TextBox).Text = "something"
                End If
            End If
        Next

This should give you an idea of how to do it. Gideon

[gnjunge]

Or you can use make a loop from 1 to x and then in the loop you place ctype(me.FindControl("txtBox" & i),TextBox).Text = "something"

[beastyboy]

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for!!! ;) I was searching after that eval-thing but this would be working fine Thx a lot gideon respect 2B respected