String formatting in VB6-- Look Please

[tyademosu]

I have some code that can reads text from a FAQ webpage and stores the sentences in an array. I need to group the Q/A pairs somehow. They will then all be written to a *.aiml output file in the format below

<aiml>
<category>
<pattern>WHAT ARE YOU</pattern>
<template>
I am the latest result in artificial intelligence,
which can reproduce the capabilities of the human brain
with greater speed and accuracy.
</template>
</category>
.
.
.
<aiml>
see -- http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html

Any suggestions are appreciated? Thanks

[freewilly]

A simple array is probably not the go. You have several other options though. A two dimension array where Array(i, 0) is the question and Array(i, 1) is one solution.

A better solution is to declare a class that contains properties for both question and answer and add an instance of this class for each Q/A pair to the array.

Still better is to add these instances to a collection. This will give you the ability to you the For Each statement if you set it up right, and the ability to add an ID key and retrieve Q/A pairs based on that ID.

Sounds like you have some more research to do. I can give you some more pointers on how to structure this if you would like.

FW