How to reference a class within a class from another scipt?

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This is the code that I’m trying to retrieve a class from: I is attributed to an empty object called “Databases”

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using System;

//code will run when the game starts
public class CSVReader : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TextAsset textAssetData;

    [System.Serializable]
    public class Question //grab data from the table, under these headings
    {
        public string Index;
        public string StageQuestion;
        public string StageAnswer;
        public string DudAnswer1;
        public string DudAnswer2;
        public string DudAnswer3;
    }

    [System.Serializable]
    public class QuestionList //create list of questions
    {
        public Question[] question; 
    }

    public QuestionList TheQuestionList = new QuestionList();

    //start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Start ReadCSV"); //functions starts
        ReadCSV();
        Console.WriteLine("End ReadCSV");  //function ends
    }

    void ReadCSV() //call function
    {
        string[] data = textAssetData.text.Split(new string[] { ",", "

" }, StringSplitOptions.None); //split csv into seperate data

        int n;
        int tableSize = data.Length / 6 - 1; //3 is the amount of columns
        TheQuestionList.question = new Question[tableSize];

        for(int i = 0; i < tableSize; i++) 
        {
            TheQuestionList.question *= new Question(); //creating new question*

n = (6 * i) + 6 + 0; // index to the string
TheQuestionList.question*.Index = data[n]; //adding index value*
//Console.WriteLine(“i: {0}, n: {1}”, i, n);

n++; // = (6 * i) + 6 + 1; //n increments by 1
TheQuestionList.question*.StageQuestion = data[n]; //adding stage question*
//Console.WriteLine(“i: {0}, n: {1}”, i, n);

n++; // n = (6 * i) + 6 + 2; //n increments by 1
TheQuestionList.question*.StageAnswer = data[n]; //adding stage answer*
//Console.WriteLine(“i: {0}, n: {1}”, i, n);

n++; // n = (6 * i) + 6 + 2; //n increments by 1
TheQuestionList.question*.DudAnswer1 = data[n]; //adding dud answer 1*
//Console.WriteLine(“i: {0}, n: {1}”, i, n);

n++; // n = (6 * i) + 6 + 2; //n increments by 1
TheQuestionList.question*.DudAnswer2 = data[n]; //adding dud answer 2*
//Console.WriteLine(“i: {0}, n: {1}”, i, n);

n++; // n = (6 * i) + 6 + 2; //n increments by 1
TheQuestionList.question*.DudAnswer3 = data[n]; //adding dud answer 3*
//Console.WriteLine(“i: {0}, n: {1}”, i, n);
}
}
}

I’m using it to read a csv file that contains questions and answers for a quiz game I’m trying to write. I want to reference the questions and display them to a text box, but I am struggling to figure out how to reference the classes, as there are multiple.
This is what I’ve got currently, i’m new to C# so i’m sorry for this code!! I’ve looked around for answers but nothing is really working.
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System;

public class QuestionPull : MonoBehaviour
{
//empty container
CSVReader csvReader;

[SerializeField] GameObject Databases;

public Text questionText;

void Awake()
{
csvReader = Databases.GetComponent();
}

//called before first frame
void Start()
{
csvReader.Question = questionText;
questionText.text = Question[1].StageQuestion;
}
}
TL;DR I’m trying to get the “StageQuestion” bit into the QuestionPull script so that I can get questions to display to the screen in a text box.
Thank u!
P.S if theres anything I can do better, please lmk!!

2

Monobehaviours are instantiated by unity so managing them is a little more restrictive than I feel it needs to be.

That said there are many ways to pass around references to them. Here are a few examples

  1. You can either get a reference to them through traversing the GameObject hierarchy. I.e. they they are on your parent or children
  2. You can use find them by name (not particularly fast)
  3. You can find them by tag
  4. You can add a field and set the reference manually in the inspector
  5. You can pass a reference by calling a method and passing the reference as a parameter.
  6. You can create a static reference to them using a singleton patter (generally code smell for almost all purposes)
  7. Using an IoC container you can inject them using dependency injection

And more.