Array starting at One

just to add, since I can't edit my original post, if you are trying to make an array of a fixed size, then you do this:

Dim theArray(size) as type

so if I had a string array and wanted its size to be 10:

Dim theStringArray(10) as String

ahmedilyas at 2007-8-31 >

ok I think I understand - so basically you want to INCREASE the size of the array correct? if so, then yes the Redim is what you are after and you need to specify the size to increase up to as stated in the doc

so if we had an array size of 4:

Dim theArray(4) as string

and we wish to increase it later to 6 then:

ReDim preserve theArray(6)

then to resize it again to say, 8, you do the same thing:

ReDim preserve theArray(8)

does this help?

ahmedilyas at 2007-8-31 >

You still dont understand, what i'm trying to do is start with 1 and then go up to 600, so its 1, 2, 3, 4, ....., not 0, 1, 2, 3, ......

For example in vb6 i could have used, but i'm using vb.net

ReDim Array(1 To 600) As Byte

So that it starts at 1 and goes up NOT 0 and up

DarkDarkDark at 2007-8-31 >

what David said is correct, it always starts from 0. Why must you have it at 1? :-)

In the IDE if you do this:

Dim test() as string

Redim preserve test(1 to 300)

the IDE will tell you, there will be a blue squiggle under "1" stating that "Array lower bounds can only be 0"

ahmedilyas at 2007-8-31 >