Hi,

I am very new to asp.net, and programming in general. I am workig on an application for my department's website in which I have a long list of checkboxes set up under a CheckBoxList control. I need to be able to preselect some of these checkboxes based on an array list of id numbers that is retrieved from the database.

I have been successful in setting up the array and created this loop to compare each check box item to each value in the array, if a match is found between the checkbox's value and a value in the array then I need to have the checkbox checked.

However, this is only working for the first value in the array. If I have 5 values in the array (55, 88, 89, 91, 94) only checkbox "55" is checked. Can anyone help me please! I've been banging my head against the wall for three days to get this far :)

Dim i As Integer
Dim j As Integer
Dim Found As Boolean

For i = 0 To CheckBoxList1.Items.Count-1
    For j = 0 To UBound(SpecSplit)
    If cint(SpecSplit(j)) = CheckBoxList1.Items(i).Value Then
        Found = True
    Exit For
    End IF
    Next

    If Found = True Then
    CheckBoxList1.Items(i).Selected = "True"
    Exit For
    End If
    Next


Thanks

Bret

Bret Sanders

Hey,

You loop through the second array each time without setting it there, and the Found variable only affects one value. Try:

For i = 0 to CheckBoxList1.Items.Count -1
  For j = 0 to UBound(SpecSplit)
    'Items.Value is a String value, not an integer
    if (CheckBoxList1.Items(i).Value = SpecSplit(j).ToString()) Then
      'This is a boolean value, not a string
      CheckBoxList1.Items(i).Selected = True
      'should only exit the first for. If not, use a boolean variable to stop the looping
      exit for
    end if
  Next
Next

Try that, hope that helps,

Brian

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed!

Bret Sanders