How to go about splitting an arraylist?

[Milkmandan]

I'll preface this by saying I'm very new to VB.Net. This is in reference to a project I'm working on for my college class, so I apologize in advance if my question may be stupid and/or unclear.

At any rate, the project I'm working on consists of a listbox that calls to one of two different forms for data. I need to be able to edit each entry by double clicking on that item in the listbox. Before I populate the popup, I need to know which form was originally used. (I hope that made sense)

I remember my professor saying we need to use something like ss = s.split(","c), so I can then use an If/then statement along the lines of:

If ss(3) = "Bliggidy" or "Blah" Then
Yadda yadda
End if

Unfortunately, I can't quite figure out how to get it to work. Can anybody provide some guidance on this?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Note: I am using Visual Studio .NET 2003/.NET Framework 1.1.

[jmcilhinney]

I'm afraid that that is a little unclear, at least to me. Split is used to split a string into an array of substrings, where the point(s) to split at are a specific character, characters or substring. The rest I'm not exactly sure what you want. If you want to remember which form the values in a Listbox came form then it's up to you to store that information in some variable(s) for later use.

[eyeRmonkey]

If you want an array of values from the listbox you can just use ListBox1.Items.Item(i).

[Milkmandan]

Basically, the two sub forms have four fields of info that are being sent to the listbox on the main form. Here's an example of what 2 lines of my listbox contain after having one of each form used:

04/08/2006 04/09/2006 BookTitle Hard Cover
04/08/2006 04/09/2006 AudioTitle Cassette

When I double click on one of these lines, I need the popup to re-populate with the original information so I can edit each entry. Upon double clicking, I basically need to figure out if that line contains "Hard Cover" or "Cassette" at the end so I know which popup form to instantiate.

If I'm going about this completely wrong, let me know.

At any rate, I hope this helps. Sorry for the lack of clarity.

[jmcilhinney]

Given that you have multiple data items in each row I'd use a ListView instead of a ListBox. The ListView allows you add multiple columns so you can keep each data item in a row distinct from the others. Then you can just check the Text property of the appropriate subitem in a row to see what it contains. Alternatively you could use a DataGrid or DataGridView and provide in-place editing.