asked on 5/1/2006

trying to retreive value of a variable after contructing it as a string

Dim FullName As String
FirstInitialLetter = Mid(LTrim(RTrim(FullName)), 1, 1) & "_" & "score"

Dim score As Double = FirstInitialLetter

My program has a set of double variables A_score, B_Score,...,Z_score and I am trying to fetch the correct
variable based on the first letter of the fullname,i.e, if FullName='Robert Dunn' then the FirtInitialLetter reduces to R_score as a string and I was hoping to be able to extract the corresponding double variable called R_score's value into score. But I get the error: Cant cast a string as a double in line 3. It is misinterpreting the FirstinitialLetter as a string and I want it to read it as a variable name. Please help!!

Thnaks

Visual Basic.NET

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LuckyLucks

5/1/2006

YZlat

5/1/2006

data type Double is a number and you are trying to assign a string to it

YZlat

5/1/2006

For example FirstInitialLetter will contain a value "R_score". What value do you expect to get in a variable "score"?

Brian Mulder

5/1/2006

Hi LuckyLucks,

if you have your scores in a array with the string R_Score as the identifier in column 1 and a second column for the value as double you can look up those values and assign them to score

hope this helps a bit
bruintje

LuckyLucks

5/1/2006

ASKER

I am looking to stuff into score the double value contained in the variable R_score. So far I have only been able to get a string called R_score. How can I now get its value?

Thanks

Brian Mulder

5/1/2006

do not think you can do this 'directly' without using something like an array

in this case you have a variable name string and a variable double those are 2 different things but i could be wrong

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