How to concatenate strings and multiline text box? 1

[markdmac]

I have a lot of experience with VBScript but am new to VB.NET. I am using VB Express Edition 2008.

I've created a form that has a number of text boxes, one of which is a multi line text box. I've added a button which should trigger concatenating all the text together.

In my form I have the following code:

Dim Author, Title, Description As String
Author = txtAuthor.Text
Title = txtTitle.Text
Description = txtDescription.Text
Dim CodeBlock() As String = Me.txtCodeBlock.Lines

I want to set a variable called "report" to be equal to the string concatonation of Author & Title & Description & CodeBlock but I am having problems. I've tried using & and + to concatenate but am getting errors that the operator is not defined for tyes 'String' and 1-dimension array of String.

Can anyone assist me with this?

Best regards,
Mark

 

[RiverGuy]

The .Lines function of your txtCodeBlock TextBox returns an array of strings. It gives you one string for each line in your TextBox. It basically takes a string, and splits it out into multiple strings for each line. So when you try to concatenate a string with an array of strings, it doesn't work. I would suggest you forgo the array in this case and work with single strings only. For example:

Dim SomeVariable As String = txtAuthor.Text & txtTitle.Text & txtDescription.Text & txtCodeBlock.Text

 

[markdmac]

Worked like a charm thanks!

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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