Is there a way to create a collection of collections?

[techgnome]

If you are adding a new list of lines to your collection then you would do this:

lst.Add(New List(of Lines))

There is no naming of items within your collection. You would have to use the Find function to find a match to whatever you are searching for or use iteration to go through each element and/or subelement (since your nesting collections).

Edit: unless you have a custom class that has a name property, then you can put your text, concatenated and all as its name!

If you are looking to declare a variable on the fly for use in code, I do not think that is not gonna happen. You cannot concatenate strings to create a variable name either. (ie Dim str & i as String where i is part of a For loop) You can however create controls or classes using the CType and/or DirectCast functions on the fly and name them as you please.

Hope that helps a little bit....

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There's also the Dictionary(Of String, List(Of Lines)) .... then you can give any string name as the key to each of your lists...

-tg