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[geethanandh]

hello
I have created auserdefined variable say test
Type test
a as string
b as integer
end type

Now creating an array of it by saying
Dim sample(10) as test
Now i have two text boxes t1 and t2. T1 has the array index say 5 and T2 has the name of the element of the type (a or b)
What i want is the value of userdefined element based on the t1 and t2 values.

sample(5).b will retrieve the value of b in the 5th array element of sample.
since i am getting 5 and b from the text box if i give
sample(t1.text).(t2.text) its not returning any value.

Pls help me in this

bye

 

[mattKnight]

Hi,

It seems to me that this is a confusion between 'run time' and 'design time'

e.g sample(t1.text).(t2.text)

The compiler can 'interpret' that t1.text wil be set at run time.
however I think the compiler will struggle with interpreting t2.text into a property name or method event though its runtime value is set to 'a' or 'b'

In other words I don't think you can dynamically access the members of an object in this fashion! maybe an alternative, less elegant I know ;-) would be

if t2.text = "a" then
sample(t1.text).a
etc
(maybe it works for this trivial example!)

Hope this helps

Matt