how to find pairs of n-variables

[badwl24]

Hello everybody.!!

I am very new to VB. I need to prepare an interface in VB6 where I have some variables like a1, a2, a3, a4...etc.
i need the pairs of them like (a1,a2), (a1,a3),(a1,a4),(a2,a3),(a2,a4),(a3,a4).
etc...
and have to enter another 6 values for each pair manually.
So i will be great full to u all if anybody suggest any idea........


with regards
Badwl
NITW

[si_the_geek]

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[vbfbryce]

Not sure exactly what you're after...

When you say "I need the pairs of them..." what do you mean?

You want some text boxes in which to enter the numbers? Then do what with them?

[VBClassicRocks]

How about an array of UDTs
Private Type TPair
V1 As Long
V2 As Long
End Type
Private Pairs() As TPair
Private PairCount As Long

[badwl24]

Not sure exactly what you're after...

When you say "I need the pairs of them..." what do you mean?

You want some text boxes in which to enter the numbers? Then do what with them?

actually i am not sure what exactly it say... but if u have variables like a1, a2, a3, a4,....etc. then how to find the pairs (a1,a2), (a1,a3), (a1,a4),(a2,a3),(a2,a4),(a3,a4)......and so on......which algorithm should I use for that?

and after that one window(form) should come like
..........+X +Y +Y -X -Y -Z
a1,a2...[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
:
:
and so on.......

[MartinLiss]

I'm sorry but in order for us to help you you'll need to give a better explanation of what you want to do.

What do you mean when you say "pairs"? You say you have variables named a1, a2, etc. Do you want to somehow find the variables themselves or do you want to find the values of the variables? In either case how do you decide if it's a "pair"?

And the following I'm sorry to say makes no sense at all. What are the Xs, Ys and Zs? And what are the + and - signs? And the brackets?

..........+X +Y +Y -X -Y -Z
a1,a2...[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
:
:

[leinad31]

If your application has a database engine then you can let the database ngine do the cartesian join rather than worrying about algorithm.

SELECT a.column_value, b.column_value
FROM your_table a
, your_table b
WHERE b.seq_no > a.seq_no -- this eliminates pairs like (a1,a1) and duplicates, e.g. (a1, a2) and (a2, a1), from result since you will be joining current record only to records that come after it

[badwl24]

If your application has a database engine then you can let the database ngine do the cartesian join rather than worrying about algorithm.

SELECT a.column_value, b.column_value
FROM your_table a
, your_table b
WHERE b.seq_no > a.seq_no -- this eliminates pairs like (a1,a1) and duplicates, e.g. (a1, a2) and (a2, a1), from result since you will be joining current record only to records that come after it

leinad31 Sir ,
Thank you.....very much ... It will be very much helpful to my project works...