UI Text in C#

Unity Engine
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Guys, I’m having huge issues with adding GUI text into the screen. Yes I know that I can simple Create new → UI → Text. But how do I change the text using a C# script? I have a score that has to be updated, but I dont know which function to call. If I try to google I only find old versions of doing this in JS and they no longer work. How to do it in Unity 5.0.1 using C#?

Help please!

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  1. Create a public or (private + serializable flag) variable in your component code “public Text scoreText”. Drag a reference in hierarchy to link these components. Then use scoreText.text in your code. Hope this helps
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How do I use it?
It gives me an error.
c:\Users\Aleksei\Dropbox\purpura_draco\Assets\Script\gemCounter.cs(15,15): Error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type ‘string’ to ‘UnityEngine.UI.Text’ (CS0029) (Assembly-CSharp)

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code

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

public class gemCounter : MonoBehaviour {
    Player p;
    //UnityEngine.UI.Text text;
    public Text scoreText;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        p = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("Player").GetComponent<Player> ();
   
   
    }
   
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {

        scoreText = "test";
   
    }
}
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It’s confusing but the Text component object has a string variable named ‘text’ that you have to access. So instead of scoreText = “test”; you would have to do scoreText.text = “test”;

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