VB Forum / General 2 / June 2006

I was wondering if anyone knew how to use a string as an array index.
what I mean is that normally one would use a number such '5' as the
array index, and that would call a value from the array:

dim example(5) as string
example(5) = "bob"

lable1.caption = example(5)

but what I want to do is use a string as the index. So you would use a
value such as "bob" and that would call a value from the array:

dim example() as string
example('test') = "something"

label1.caption = example('test')

I can think of a number of roundabout ways to do this such as using a
two dimentional array and then searching for the passed index in one
column of the array, when it is found go to the next column and there
is your value.  Is there any other way to do this?

Any and all help is appreciated

Dan