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Use a string to refered to an object

First, sorry for my poor english... My native language is french.

Now my question:

I need to have a function that return a string. Something like this:

Function test(p1 as integer) as String
Select Case p1
Case 1
test = "object1"
...
Case n
test = "objectn"
End select
End function

So if i use "test(2).name" i will access the name property of object2.

Sorry if it's confuse.

Vincent

AzraSound

the way you have the function set up it will return a single value for test...all you should have to do is return test and youll get the object from the select case statement

Dim str As String
str = test(3)
Msgbox str

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AzraSound

he says he wants to return a string...maybe he means this:

Function test(p1 as integer) as String
Select Case p1
Case 1
test = object1.name
...
Case n
test = objectn.name
End select
End function

now test will return the name of whichever object is selected according to the p1 value that is passed to the function. let us know if we're reading your question correctly.

however this wouldnt make much sense to have a control array as they all bear the same name (different indexes)
how does the p1 parameter reference a particular object? what is the correlation between the two?

Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

Public Function Text(p1 as Integer) as String
Text = me.Controls("object" & p1).Name
End Function

This may be what you are looking for, Me is referring to the Form