did a search and
i checked out "original monkey gangeter's tutorial on arrays. Followed it to the T and im not getting what i want.

from what i understand to create an array id do this

dim arrayname(#) as datatype

arrayname(0)= "whatever value i want"
arrayname(1)= "whatever i want"
... so on

this doesnt work on mine, the bottome two arrayname's would be underlined in blue and it would say "explicit initialization is nto permitted with arrays declared with excplicit bounds" i have this declared as at the module level, does it belong somehwere else?

and then

how do i specify which element in the array i want using a combo box SelectedIndexChange?