System.Linq.Strings is inaccessible due to its protection level

Mike Mays

Hello,
I'm trying to enhance a program that one of our ex employee's built but not having much luck. I'm totally new to C# but have built other small programs using vb 2008. What I'm trying to do is take a textbox that gets populated from a barcode label using a symbol scanner and split the information into two other textboxes I have done this successfully in VB but C# throws a System.Linq.Strings is inaccessible due to its protection level. I'v searched and cant seem to find the solution. The program works as designed but when I insert the following code I get the error. Anyone wanna take a crack at it thanks. STRINGS is were the error is occurring
private void OrderNumber_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Array split = ScannedBC.Text.Split('-');
if (split.Length == 2)
{
OrderNumber.Text = Strings.Split(0);
ShipNumber.Text = Strings.Split(1);
ShipNumber.Text = ShipNumber.Text.Substring(3, ShipNumber.Text.Length - 3);
OrderNumber.Text = OrderNumber.Text.Substring(1, OrderNumber.Text.Length - 1);
}
}
}
}
here are the references
using Microsoft.VisualBasic;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

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Sam Hobbs16y ago
Accepted answer
I understand that for beginners it is often difficult to know where to look for help or how to ask for it. For the future, you can look at the documentation such as here to help. An even better solution is to get a good book about C#. The previous reply is quite cryptic; just use String (singular) instead of Strings (plural).
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Sam Hobbs16y ago
I am sorry. I did not look closely enough at your code and I was distracted by the other reply. The following works and is more direct, appropriate and educational.
String ScannedBC = "3456-9876";
String OrderNumber="", ShipNumber="";
String[] split = ScannedBC.Split('-');
if (split.Length == 2)
{
OrderNumber = split[0];
OrderNumber = OrderNumber.Substring(1, OrderNumber.Length - 1);
ShipNumber = split[1];
ShipNumber = ShipNumber.Substring(3, ShipNumber.Length - 3);
}
Note that you need to adjust that code slightly because I modified your code so I could test it. My version was tested and works.
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Mike Mays16y ago
Thank you STRING is the keyword
Array split = ScannedBC.Text.Split('-'.ToString().ToCharArray());
if (split.Length == 2)
{
OrderNumber.Text = (string)(split.GetValue(0));
ShipNumber.Text = (string)(split.GetValue(1));
ShipNumber.Text = ShipNumber.Text.Substring(3, ShipNumber.Text.Length - 3);
OrderNumber.Text = OrderNumber.Text.Substring(1, OrderNumber.Text.Length - 1);
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spik_jk16y ago
That's because there's no such thing as "Strings" When you split a string it will return an Array of strings
You assign a the Ordernumber.Text a string array, but it only takes a string as a value! I will only give a hint for you to continue on!
Since, IF you are not intersted then im not by giving you some code
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