Hi if i have public string names like
public string p1,p2,p3,p4,p5,p6,p7,p8;

how could one set the values to such in a for loop? is it possible?

i've tried things like:

for (int i = 0; i <= 8; i++)
{
(p+(i)).ToString = myArr[i, 0];
}

That is not possible
Instead you declare string arrary p
and access as p(0),p(1).....
like that

urt

the reason they are public string cause i need to display the values in the html page, and i know there are better way to set html values but, i cannot change the html with ease. this is the code that pertains to my first post but instead of p1,p2 i have aller_medName0,aller_medName1

Any suggestions, there must be a creative work around

for (int i = 0; i <= myAll.Length; i++)
{
    switch (myAll[i, 2] as string)
    {
        case "MED":
          aller_medName+i.ToString() = myAll[i, 0];
          aller_medReact+i.ToString() = myAll[i, 1];
          break;
        case "FOO":
           aller_fooName + i.ToString() = myAll[i, 0];
           aller_fooReact + i.ToString() = myAll[i, 1];
           break;
        case "ENV":
           aller_envName + i.ToString() = myAll[i, 0];
           aller_envReact + i.ToString() = myAll[i, 1];
            break;
        }
}

As urt suggests, this is what an array is for. And Seeing as this is a C# forum, here's the suggestion in C#:

public string[] p = new string; //arrays are 0 based, so 0-8 makes 9 items

for(int i=0; i<=8; i++){
  p[i] = myArr[i,0];
}

That will assign the value from myArr to the item i in the array p.

The assignment "x.ToString = ..." doesn't work. ToString is a method that all objects have. It returns (typically) the object's value as string. You can not assign a value to it. If you have an array of strings into which you want to assign non-string values you would do this:

p[i] = myVariable.ToString();

In your case, the loop code would probably be this:

for(int i=0; i<=8; i++){
  p[i] = myArr[i,0].ToString();
}

Long story short, you can't access multiple variables dynamically by constructing their names on at runtime, this is the purpose of arrays and collections/lists.

-Peter

Thanks for the info, very informative "you can't access multiple variables dynamically by constructing their names on at runtime",
i'm use to a langure where one can

Thanks!:D

one last quest, if yous wouldn't mind
what about looping a senerio like so:

if (aller[0].ToString() != Request.Form["aller0"].ToString()) { cmd.Parameters.Add("@aller0", SqlDbType.NVarChar).Value = Request.Form["aller0"].ToString(); }

if (aller[1].ToString() != Request.Form["aller1"].ToString()) { cmd.Parameters.Add("@aller1", SqlDbType.NVarChar).Value = Request.Form["aller1"].ToString(); }

if (aller[2].ToString() != Request.Form["aller2"].ToString()) {
....


could this be possible in a loop ?


something like?:

for (int i = 0; i <= 26; i++)
{

if (aller[i].ToString() != Request.Form["aller[i]"].ToString()) { cmd.Parameters.Add("@aller[i]", SqlDbType.NVarChar).Value = Request.Form["aller[i]"].ToString()); }

}

ALSO can using the SqlDataReader rdr be used with the public array something like,

Anam[i] = (string)rdr1["Anam[i]"];

Thanks again

Because Request.Form takes a string parameter then yes you can do this, but not how you've just don it:

for (int i = 0; i <= 26; i++)
{
  if (aller[i].ToString() != Request.Form["aller"] + i.ToString())
  {
    cmd.Parameters.Add("@aller" + i.ToString(), SqlDbType.NVarChar).Value = Request.Form["aller"] + i.ToString());
  }
}

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

It is possible with reflection:

C# uses the declaration to specify length so new string is an array of length with elements 0 - 7.

What you wrote is true for VB and VB.NET.

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

What language is that?

-Peter