Greets,

I'm trying to access individual records and fields of records in an
arraylist
but I'm having trouble. I thinks it's a syntax problem.

Why doesn't arraylist.age(1) give me '67' in the example below
what's the proper syntax? Can arraylist do this or do I have to switch to
a plan array?

Example
Name: Age: Ht:
john 14 56
sally 67 43
bill 34 76


Tia

Sal,

I thought that I had seen this before and gave you a sample with a
datatable.

Why using such a complex working array or arraylist in this kind of
situations, while the datatable does it direct for you?.

Cor


"sal" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> Greets,
>
> I'm trying to access individual records and fields of records in an
> arraylist
> but I'm having trouble. I thinks it's a syntax problem.
>
> Why doesn't arraylist.age(1) give me '67' in the example below
> what's the proper syntax? Can arraylist do this or do I have to switch to
> a plan array?
>
> Example
> Name: Age: Ht:
> john 14 56
> sally 67 43
> bill 34 76
>
>
> Tia

What order where they placed into the ArrayList. is the array in reverse?
"sal" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Xns95AC4CF98A3Bsalsppnet@216.77.188.18...
> Greets,
>
> I'm trying to access individual records and fields of records in an
> arraylist
> but I'm having trouble. I thinks it's a syntax problem.
>
> Why doesn't arraylist.age(1) give me '67' in the example below
> what's the proper syntax? Can arraylist do this or do I have to switch to
> a plan array?
>
> Example
> Name: Age: Ht:
> john 14 56
> sally 67 43
> bill 34 76
>
>
> Tia

Hi,

You can't call directly upon properties of objects inside an arraylist,
you need to cast the object back to its original type first.

C#:
((Record)arraylist[1]).age would be 67 assuming you put Record objects
with an age property inside the ArrayList.

--
Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

What does the addtion to the arraylist look like.
Assume you have a class Example with three properties Name, Age, Ht
respectively.
//I'm assuming an overloaded constructor that accepts three agruments
Example ex = new Example, ("john", 14, 56);
Example ex2 = new Example("sally", 67, 43);
Example ex3 = new Example("bill", 34, 76);

ArrayList al = new ArrayList();
al.Add(ex);
al.Add(ex2);
al.Add(ex3);

int i = ((Employee)al[1]).Age; will work for you or in VB.nET

Dim i as Integer = CType(al(1), Employee).Age

HTH,

Bill
--
W.G. Ryan MVP (Windows Embedded)

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"sal" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Xns95AC4CF98A3Bsalsppnet@216.77.188.18...
> Greets,
>
> I'm trying to access individual records and fields of records in an
> arraylist
> but I'm having trouble. I thinks it's a syntax problem.
>
> Why doesn't arraylist.age(1) give me '67' in the example below
> what's the proper syntax? Can arraylist do this or do I have to switch to
> a plan array?
>
> Example
> Name: Age: Ht:
> john 14 56
> sally 67 43
> bill 34 76
>
>
> Tia

Correct syntax will be
arraylist[1]

Regards,

Deepak
[I Code, therefore I am]


"sal" wrote:

> Greets,
>
> I'm trying to access individual records and fields of records in an
> arraylist
> but I'm having trouble. I thinks it's a syntax problem.
>
> Why doesn't arraylist.age(1) give me '67' in the example below
> what's the proper syntax? Can arraylist do this or do I have to switch to
> a plan array?
>
> Example
> Name: Age: Ht:
> john 14 56
> sally 67 43
> bill 34 76
>
>
> Tia
>