Accessing a variable via string

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Hello,

I have a string array which has names of plenty byte variables, i need to set them and i need to access them with these strings.

I can access a control with reflection like that, but doesn't work for variables

C#

TextBox textBoxA = this.GetType().GetField("textBox1", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic).GetValue(this) as TextBox;
textBoxA.Text = "test";

Posted 2-Oct-11 21:57pm

emrea

Updated 2-Oct-11 21:59pm

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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Simon Bang Terkildsen 3-Oct-11 4:05am

if you by variables mean fields then it does work, the textBox1 control you're getting is an auto generated field.
In short the posted code gets any non public fields of the class. But you might try to ask something different, but since the posted code isn't the code which troubles you it's hard to tell.

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Abhinav S · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-02T22:04:00

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Use GetField() as shown here[^].

Posted 2-Oct-11 22:04pm

Abhinav S