gameObject.GetComponentsInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>() is showing as an array

Hi all,
I'm working on a visual novel game and trying to add the choice buttons.

The script here, I'm trying to link a "TextMeshProUGUI" with the GameObject so the choices text will be updated according to inkscript.

But when I tried GetComponent, the error states "cannot implicitly convert TextMeshProUGUI[] to TextMeshProUGUI"

some reason this GetComponent is outputting as an array instead of a single entity.

here is a part of my script that only includes the error part and the initialising part.

Code (CSharp):

1. [Header("Choices UI")]
2.     [SerializeField] private GameObject[] choices;
3.     private TextMeshProUGUI[] choiceText;

Code (CSharp):

1.  void Start()
2.     {
3.         LoadStory();
4.         choiceText = new TextMeshProUGUI[choices.Length];
5.         Debug.Log(choiceText.Length);
6.         Debug.Log(choices.Length);
7.         int index = 0;
8.         foreach(GameObject choice in choices)
9.         {
10.            choiceText[index] = choice.GetComponentsInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>(); //error line
11.             index++;
12.         }
13.         Debug.Log(choiceText.Length);
14.     }

is there any way to rectify this ?

 

There are two things. GetComponentsInChildren, and GetComponentInChildren. They return different things.

 

My goodness, I've been a fool.

Thanks, it works now.