error CS1061 and error CS0117 scripting InputField

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I’m trying to create an Input Field to send commands to a simple AI.
I’m getting this error:

***Assets/Scripts/InputController.cs(15,23): error CS1061: Type ‘string’ does not contain a definition for ‘text’ and no extension method ‘text’ of type ‘string’ could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

From this following script:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;

public class InputController : MonoBehaviour {

	private InputField input;

	void Awake(){
		input = GameObject.Find ("InputField").GetComponent<InputField>();
	}

	public void GetInput(string input){
		Debug.Log (input);
		input.text = "";
	}
}

FYI: The ‘text’ parameter in the input component is highlighted in red in the MonoDevelop:

        public void GetInput(string input){
    		Debug.Log (input);
    		input.text = "";
    	}

When I hover over it in the MonoDevelop I get the following error in a balloon message:

Error CS0117: ‘System.String’ does not contain a definition for ‘text’

  • I test this in a plain new project and scene and it works.
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private InputField input;

public void GetInput(string input){
   Debug.Log (input);
   input.text = "";
}

You have a member variable “input”, which is of type InputField.

And you have a method parameter “input”, which is of type string.

So there is a conflict.

Choose another name for one of the variables.