C# foreach loop with radio buttons

[somacore]

VS2005, C# Windows Form

I can't quite figure out how to do this, but i think I'm close. I have a groupbox which contains 8 radio buttons, and I need to figure out which one is checked for entry into a database.

The button field looks like this:

()Assigned ()Working ()In Testing and so on.

In the DB, the values of the checkboxes are treated as an int, 0, 1, 2, 3 etc.

I've written this foreach statement to go through and get the text value of the radio button that's checked:

foreach(RadioBu tton RadioButton_X in groupBox9.Contr ols)
{
if (RadioButton_X. Checked == true)
{
string PATesting = RadioButton_X.T ext;
break;
}
}

and then I was planning to do a switch statement to assign the variable a numerical value based on the text:

switch(PATestin g)
{
case "Assigned":
PATesting = "0";
break;
etc...

but what I get is this error on the switch statement:
"The name 'PATesting' does not exist in the current context."


Basically, once I'm out of the foreach loop it dumps the variable. I'm thinking "duh, it's a loop" but I can't figure out a better way to go about this.

Thoughts?

Mike

[nateraaaa]

Define string PATesting outside of your foreach loop and that will fix your problem. It is currently only in the scope of the foreach loop and is not accessible outside of the loop.

 string PATesting = string.Empty; 
foreach(RadioButton RadioButton_X in groupBox9.Controls)
{
if (RadioButton_X.Checked == true)
{
PATesting = RadioButton_X.Text;
switch(PATesting)
{
case "Assigned":
PATesting = "0";
break;
}
}
}
 

Nathan

[somacore]

Thanks!

That worked great. I had previously tried to define it outside the loop by doing:

string PATesting;

but that didn't work. Figures I needed it to equal something.

Thanks again!