Arrays?

[The Hobo]

I don't want to sound like a dumbass, but is there a way to use arrays in Visual Basic, such as you can in Perl?

I want to be able to have a list of error messages and call them by like Error(10) or whatever. Is there something similiar to this? If so, can someone tell me how to declare it and use it?

Thanks in advance.

[DNA7433]

yep

Dim E(1 to 10) As String
 
E(1) = "Very Bad Error"
E(2) = "Even Worse Error"
E(3) = "Blue Screen of Death!"
 
MsgBox E(3)

[rainwalker]

hey, is it possible to declare an array with one dimension being a variable? Life say I want to save memory so i open a file as #0 and then

Dim i as integer

do while not EOF(0)
i = i + 1
loop

Can I use i in declaring an array? As in

Dim arrfoo(0 to 0, 0 to i) as string

Thanks for your help

Steve Gazzo

[DNA7433]

i don't think VB lets you dim an array with a variable the first time, what you have to do is declare it dynamically

Dim E() As String
 
i = 5
 
ReDim E(1 to i, 1 to i) As String

also keep in mind (this is a problem i ran into a while back) that when declaring arrays dynamically using preserve, you can only change the last dimension

so...
ReDim E(1 to i, 1 to i) As Integer
is legal

but after that...
ReDim Preserve(1 to i, 1 to i + 1) As Integer
is not, so you can only do
ReDim Preserve(1 to i, 1 to i + 1) As Integer