Null reference when I already assign a value? (UI Button and Text)

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Hey guys! I am making a cheesy 2D platformer, and for some reason, it is saying that the text fields are null, which is odd, because I specifically give them values. Here is the code:

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

public class LevelUp : MonoBehaviour {

//The text stating that the player leveled up

public GameObject levelText;

//The button GameObject that the user can click

public Button[] BubbleText = new Button[2];

//The text on the buttons

public Text[] text = new Text[2];

//The string of text options that the user can pick from

public string[][] RogueLvl = new string[3][];

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {

    //Some bug testing
    //This doesn't show up, so BubbleText[0] is not null

    if(BubbleText[0]==null)
    {
        print("BubbleText[0] is null"); 
    }

    //Assigning the Text object to the text on the buttons

    text[0] = BubbleText[0].gameObject.GetComponent<Text>();
    text[1] = BubbleText[1].gameObject.GetComponent<Text>();

    //Temporary statements, to be later upgraded with actual sentences

    RogueLvl[2][0] = "Statement1";
    RogueLvl[2][1] = "Statement2";

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {

}

void Rogue(int l)
{
    for(int i =0; i<RogueLvl.Length; i++)
    {
        //Enabling the gameObjects in the scene

        BubbleText*.gameObject.SetActive(true);*

//Some bug testing, the first statement Returns 2, the second one returns 0;
print("L is " + l);
print("I is " + i);
//If text is null, then this print statement fires
//THIS STATEMENT IS TRUE, so it prints "Text is null"
if(text*==null)*
{
print(“Text “+i+” is null”);
}
//Assigning the statement to the text field
//This is the line where I get the error
text_.text = RogueLvl[l]+“”;
}
}
Any help would be awesome, and thanks in advance everyone :slight_smile:_

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It would help if you tell where the error occurs (In the question, I now see that you did it in the comments :p).

Also, you are probably setting the values to null yourself in here:

text[0] = BubbleText[0].gameObject.GetComponent<Text>();

When there is no Text component on your BubbleText[0] then this will set text[0] to null.

And since your BubbleText[0] is a Button Component, I’m assuming the Text component is on a child of the button component instead of on the same GameObject as the Button component. So changing it to this should work:

text[0] = BubbleText[0].gameObject.GetComponentInChildren<Text>();