Variable Variables in Visual Basic

[BaKo]

Hey. I was wondering how I would be able to make a variable that has a name that contains another variable. I want to create a bunch of tabpages for files that have names that are like tab_filename. I know in php you could do ${$var} = "data";
How would i go about this in vb? thanks

[Dököll]

If we're talking strings, you can say:

 
Dim MyVariable, MyMethod
 
MyVariable = Doolittle
 
MyMethod = ...
...
 
If Doolittle Like "Lalala" Then 
 
  This or that
 
End If
 
...
 
 

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[Killer42]

One possibility might be to store them in a collection, which allows you to use a string as the index to retrieve them. So for instance you could access something in the TabName collection by referencing TabName(FileName).

[BaKo]

Thanks, that solves the tabpage problem, but I also need to create whole new tabControls for each file, and I can't use a collection of tabControls, just pages. Any ideas? Is there a way to increment variable names maybe? Thanks alot!

[Killer42]

Thanks, that solves the tabpage problem, but I also need to create whole new tabControls for each file, and I can't use a collection of tabControls, just pages. Any ideas? Is there a way to increment variable names maybe? Thanks alot!

Hm... apart from arrays, the only way I can think of to "increment variable names" would be to use something like the Microsoft Script Control and try to build code dynamically at runtime and execute it. I don't have any experience with this, but it has been mentioned once or twice in earlier threads - you could try some searching.

If so, also try searching on Microsoft Scripting Runtime (although that's also used for the FileSystemObject model, and will show up much more frequently).