Programmatically Check an Item in Checkboxlist where text is equal to what i want

Question

In C#, I am trying to Check an item in a CheckBoxList where the text equals what I require.

I would modify the code to check items that exist in the database.

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Answer 1

All Credit to @Jim Scott -- just added one touch. (ASP.NET 4.5 & C#)

Refractoring this a little more... if you pass the CheckBoxList as an object to the method, you can reuse it for any CheckBoxList. Also you can use either the Text or the Value.

private void SelectCheckBoxList(string valueToSelect, CheckBoxList lst)
{
    ListItem listItem = lst.Items.FindByValue(valueToSelect);
    //ListItem listItem = lst.Items.FindByText(valueToSelect);
    if (listItem != null) listItem.Selected = true;
}

//How to call it -- in this case from a SQLDataReader and "chkRP" is my CheckBoxList`

SelectCheckBoxList(dr["kRPId"].ToString(), chkRP);`