Calling Module variables.

I have to start off by saying that I'm used to working with VB 6.0 from high school and that experience has carried just about the whole way through my college course with a few hiccups here and there.

I believe I'm supposed to create a variable called mRaceName (should hold "Kentucky Derby"), and then read in the Horse information (1: Circular Quay, 9-5;Happy) in as an array.

This is one of the module strings:

Public Race01() As String = {"Kentucky Derby, derby.jpg", _
"1: Circular Quay, 9-5;Happy", _
"2: Stormello, 5-1;Bashful", _
"3: Cobalt Blue, 30-1;Snow White", _
"4: Crudacious, 6-5;Bozo", _
"5: Take Five, 5-1;Wet Willie", _
"6: Big Loser, 0-0;Duncell", _
"7: Bongo Monkey, 3-1;Bashful", _
"8: Tripoli, 21-1;Jack Beabstalk"}

The book I have doesn't discuss modules other than mention them as a "collection of code stored in one file"

Thank you very much for ANY help you can offer me.

Welcome to the Forums.

Modules are just like they were in VB 6. Probably one of the few things that was retained.

You could use a collection in a class to dynamically add your items to it.

You'll have to forgive me, but I'm not very good with classes and I don't remember ever using a module in VB 6.0 the 4 years ago I had the class.

If you declare it as "Public" then it will be accessible throughout your app but usually not the best for OOP design/logic.

So are you saying I could just declare a variable called mRaceName and use a substr() fucntion to take the beginning section and put Kentucky Derby into the mRaceName value, or that I would need to take that Race1() string and read it into a public variable I declare in the Form code?

I tried to put the string from the module into a global variable and got - Value of type '1-dimensional array of String' cannot be converted to 'String'.
Not really sure where to go from here.

That means your trying to set an array to a string, or a string to an array, can you post the code you got this error on please.

the code I was getting it on I have fixed. I've actually figured out my problem for this part of the assignment at least. If I would have spent another 10 minutes tinkering I would have found it. Thank you to everyone who replied.