referencing or indexing text boxes

whats the enter character in vb.net?

you can always trim out or replace the enter character before you write it to the file. or prevent the user from putting multiple lines into the textbox

I am trying to collect information from a bunch of text boxes and then save that information in a text file. I used the read and write buffers to write the information but what is the most efficient way to collect this information and save it? So I used: If (SaveFileDialog1.ShowDialog() <> DialogResult.Cancel) Then fileName = SaveFileDialog1.FileName Dim infoStream As New IO.FileStream(fileName, IO.FileAccess.Write) Dim infoWriter As New IO.StreamWriter(infoStream) For Each ctl In frm.Controls Dim tb As TextBox If TypeOf ctl Is TextBox Then tb = CType(ctl, TextBox) If (tb.Text.Equals("")) Then infoWriter.WriteLine("nothing") Else infoWriter.WriteLine(tb.Text) End If End If Next infoWriter.Close() End If My problem now is if a text box has multiple lines and the user presses the enter button to go to the new line, this new line, in the text file is now considered to be information from another text box because I read the text file line by line when I try to open the information and place it into the text boxes. So im kind of stuck here.

what do you mean a reference? the name of the textbox is a reference to that textbox