How to change the text inside UI>Text

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I want to show player points in a Text box. How can i make that using a script? I put the default text as "0" and i want to change it to "1","2",....."n". I tryied this:

 public class SomeClass : MonoBehaviour
  {
    Text myText;
  
    public void Start()
    {
      myText = GetComponent<Text>();
    }
  
    public void UpdateText()
    {
      mytext.text = "Some new string value";
    }
  }

but I get this error: The type or namespace name `Text' could not be found. I am using the latest version of Unity

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Answer by Positive7 · Sep 17, 2015 at 05:07 PM

With using UnityEngine.UI;

 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 
 public class SomeClass : MonoBehaviour
 {
     Text myText;
     
     public void Start()
     {
         myText = GetComponent<Text>();
     }
     
     public void UpdateText()
     {
         myText.text = "Some new string value";
     }
 }

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miksams · Sep 17, 2015 at 05:34 PM 0

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Thanks, that was simple :)

miksams · Sep 30, 2015 at 12:47 PM 0

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also i found that i can just add +variableName after "Some new string value" and the value will be displayer, very cool.

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