Arrays in VB.NET

[joshuaand]

What I want to do is create an array, of say 5 elements, but instead of doing it the old VB6 way:

Dim myArr(4) as variant
myArr(0) = "1"
myArr(1) = 23
myArr(2) = "2"
myArr(3) = "other"
myArr(4) = 2.2

I want to be able to clean it up and do it on one line, somthing like this:

Dim myArr(4) as VariantType = new Array("1",2,2.2,"4",5)

But I get the error:

'New' cannot be used on a class that is declared 'MustInherit'.

I know I am doing something wrong, anyone know what???

[axion_sa]

Dim myArr() As VariantType = {"1", 23, "2", "other", 2.2}

[Edneeis]

Use Object instead of VariantType. Object is pretty much the equvilant of Variant.

Dim myArr() As Object= {"1", 23, "2", "other", 2.2}

[freightliner]

there is only one problem, all the variables will use the same object/class, not a new instance of it.

so:

why don't you do it like

dim arr() as object
arr(0)=new object
arr(1)=new object
...

[freightliner]

this way you can even make triangular arrays
like
1
1 1
1 1 1
...

or even


1
1 1 1
1 1
1 1 1 1
...

[Edneeis]

Actually this:

dim arr() as object 
arr(0)=new object 
arr(1)=new object

And

Dim myArr() As Object= {New Object,New Object}

Are the samething.

The only difference is you used objects and the previous examples used more common data types.

[wyrd]

Remember that you can use a For Each loop with arrays too.