[RESOLVED] [2005] Combobox selectedItem

I have a combobox with countries
Britain
USA
Iraq
Kuwait
Iran
Afganistan

I want to assign certian values for each country so i use this select statement but i cant tell why its not working.Any Idea
It gives me my orignal values.

VB Code:

Private a As Double=0
Private b As Double=0
Select Case cbCountries.GetItemText(cbCountries.SelectedItem)
   Case "Britain"
    a=24.78
    b=34.9
  Case "USA"
    a=10  
    b=30.8
  Case "Iraq"
    a=28.1
    b=34
 
End Select
 
Messagebox.Show(a & ":" & b)

***EDIT****
Got it. I had messed up with something small.

do you get any error message? i tried this code on my machine and it works perfect.

where do you declare variable a & b? if in SelectedIndexChanged event of the combobox then change private to dim.

regards,
sweet_dreams