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Hey, I am fairly new to Visual Basic and for an assignment I have to program a two player tic tac toe using text boxes as the squares.

The problem I am having is that it won't declare on the if statement who won, even though the variables are working correctly.

CODE

Private Sub cmdcheck_Click()
Dim victory1, victory2, victory3, victory4, victory5, victory6, victory7, victory8 As String

victory1 = txttopleft.Text & txttopright.Text & txttopmiddle.Text
victory2 = txttopleft.Text & txtmiddle.Text & txtbottomright.Text
victory3 = txttopright.Text & txtmiddle.Text & txtbottomleft.Text
victory4 = txttopleft.Text & txtmiddleleft.Text & txtbottomleft.Text
victory5 = txttopmiddle.Text & txtmiddle.Text & txtbottommid.Text
victory6 = txttopright.Text & txtmiddleright.Text & txtbottomright.Text
victory7 = txtmiddleleft.Text & txtmiddle.Text & txtmiddleright.Text
victory8 = txtbottomleft.Text & txtbottommid.Text & txtbottomright.Text

If (victory1 = xxx) Or (victory2 = xxx) Or (victory3 = xxx) Or (victory4 = xxx) Or (victory5 = xxx) Or (victory6 = xxx) Or (victory7 = xxx) Or (victory8 = xxx) Then
Picture1.Print "X WINS!"
ElseIf (victory1 = ooo) Or (victory2 = ooo) Or (victory3 = ooo) Or (victory4 = ooo) Or (victory5 = ooo) Or (victory6 = ooo) Or (victory7 = ooo) Or (victory8 = ooo) Then
Picture1.Print "O WINS!"
End If
End Sub

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you.