Variables

[Bernard Bourée]

I'm coding a complex system which require thousands of varaibles.
I would like to create most of them dynamicly with a template.

for exemple I woould like to be able to declare my varaibles as follows

Dim s1, s2 as string
Dim s1 & s2 as Decimal

Of course it does not work.

Is there a working arround ?

 

[David Browne]

I'm coding a complex system which require thousands of varaibles.
I would like to create most of them dynamicly with a template.

for exemple I woould like to be able to declare my varaibles as follows

Dim s1, s2 as string
Dim s1 & s2 as Decimal

Of course it does not work.

Is there a working arround ?

You can use arrays and collections like System.Collections.Hashtable to
provide storage containers for arbitrary data elements.

eg

Dim values As New System.Collections.Hashtable
values.Add("A", 2)
values.Add("B", 3)
Console.WriteLine(values("A"))

David

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I'm coding a complex system which require thousands of varaibles.
I would like to create most of them dynamicly with a template.

for exemple I woould like to be able to declare my varaibles as follows

Dim s1, s2 as string
Dim s1 & s2 as Decimal

Of course it does not work.

Is there a working arround ?

Take a look at arrays and collections ('ArrayList', 'Hashtable', ...).

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Bernard,

The first approach for this is in my opinon an array.
Is it a fixex array than just a fixex array by instance
dim s(999) as string 'Because of a strange fact of VisualBasic are this 1000
strings.

When it is dynamic you can use an arraylist
dim s as new arraylist

In the first case you fill the data with
s(0) = "Whatever"

In the second case you fill the data with
s.add("Whatever")

However see my message in your other question what is posible a better
approach.

Cor