How to get result of #Eval("X") in my C# code?

Question

I have some asp code with an asp:Repeater object.

I am familiar with using <%# Eval("field") to print dataitem.field to the HTML code. However, what can I do if I want to get the result of Eval("field") saved to a string literal for further processing?

Update: I feel like I owe an apology for not being more specific. As the first answerer suggetss, I am planning to use the result in an ItemTemplate. However, what about field of the current record that are not strings? What if I have some complex type that contains all sorts of weird ** and I want to refer to the fields in my item template, and not as strings?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is what you're asking for, but if you want to do an Eval in a context outside of .aspx markup, you can use the DataBinder.Eval method directly in your code.