TextBoxBase::Lines Property
Gets or sets the lines of text in a text box control.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
public: property array<String^>^ Lines { array<String^>^ get(); void set(array<String^>^ value); }
Property Value
Type: array<System::String^>^An array of strings that contains the text in a text box control.
Each element in the array becomes a line of text in the text box control. If the Multiline property of the text box control is set to true and a newline character appears in the text, the text following the newline character is added to a new element in the array and displayed on a separate line.
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By default, the collection of lines is a read-only copy of the lines in the TextBox. To get a writable collection of lines, use code similar to the following: textBox1.Lines = new string[] { "abcd" }; |
The following code example uses TextBox, a derived class, to extract all strings of text from a multiline text box control and displays them using the Debug::WriteLine method. This example requires that a TextBox control has been created, named textBox1, and that it has been filled with lines of text.
public: void ViewMyTextBoxContents() { #if defined(DEBUG) // Create a string array and store the contents of the Lines property. array<String^>^ tempArray = gcnew array<String^>( textBox1->Lines->Length ); tempArray = textBox1->Lines; // Loop through the array and send the contents of the array to debug window. for ( int counter = 0; counter < tempArray->Length; counter++ ) { System::Diagnostics::Debug::WriteLine( tempArray[ counter ] ); } #endif }
Available since 1.1
