Will wildcards work on objects?

Is it possible to use wild cards in a parameter? I have this code which repeats for the properties TextLine1,TextLine2, TextLine3, and TextLine 4. Is it possible to replace the number with a wildcard and so that i can pass the number based on user input.

TextLine1, TextLine2, TextLine3, and TextLine 4 are properties of the class ReportHeader.

 public Control returnTextLine(ReportHeader TextLineObj,int i)
    {

        System.Windows.Forms.Label lblTextLine = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
        lblTextLine.Name = TextLineObj.**TextLine1**.Name;
        lblTextLine.Font = TextLineObj.**TextLine1**.Font;
        lblTextLine.ForeColor = TextLineObj.**TextLine1**.ForeColor;
        lblTextLine.BackColor = TextLineObj.**TextLin开发者_开发知识库e1**.BackgroundColor;
        lblTextLine.Text = TextLineObj.**TextLine1**.Text;
        int x = TextLineObj.**TextLine1**.x;
        int y = TextLineObj.**TextLine1**.y;
        lblTextLine.Location = new Point(x, y);


        return lblTextLine;
    }

Please Help...

No, this can't be done.
What you can do however, is to extend the class representing TextLineObj with a TextLines property which is a ReadonlyCollection:

public class TextLineObj
{
    public ReadonlyCollection<TextLine> TextLines { get; private set; }

    public TextLineObj()
    {
        TextLines = new ReadonlyCollection<TextLine>(
                            new List<TextLine> { TextLine1, TextLine2, 
                                                 TextLine3, TextLine4 });
    }
}

Use it like this:

TextLineObj.TextLines[i].Name;

Short answer: No, it's not possible to use wildcards for referencing objects.

You should instead store a collection of the TextLine instances in ReportHeader. This way you can easily access each TextLine by index.

public class ReportHeader
{
    private TextLine[] textLines

    ...

    public TextLine[] TextLines
    {
        get { return this.textLines; }
    }

    ...
}

public Control returnTextLine(ReportHeader reportHeader, int textLineIndex)
{
    TextLine textLine = reportHeader.TextLines[textLineIndex];

    System.Windows.Forms.Label lblTextLine = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
    lblTextLine.Name = textLine.Name;
    lblTextLine.Font = textLine.Font;
    lblTextLine.ForeColor = textLine.ForeColor;
    lblTextLine.BackColor = textLine.BackgroundColor;
    lblTextLine.Text = textLine.Text;
    int x = textLine.x;
    int y = textLine.y;
    lblTextLine.Location = new Point(x, y);

    return lblTextLine;
}

It could be done via reflection, of course. But I suggest to use the solution proposed by Daniel.