Structures

[sjn78]

I have a structure as follows

 

Structure Players

Dim Player1 as String

Dim Player2 as String

....... and so on

End Structure

 

If I now define a new object using this structure, is there a way to query through each of its 'children' eg,

 

Dim Team as New Players()

Dim i as Integer = 1

 

' Some code to find Team.Players1 since i = 1 but if i = 2, then use Team.Players2.

 

' Then I can jump to a function specific to what player is current.

 

Team.Player?? (the one that matches to i) then do something else.

 

 

The way I am thinking about this is the same way you would loop through all of the controls on a form and look for a match in the controls name or text.

 

I know I could do it with a Select Case or If statements, but I am trying to do it without having to code a few hundreds lines.

 

Thanks

 

Steve

[PlausiblyDamp]

Rather than a structure could you not use an array of Players?

[sjn78]

I thought about that and will most likely go that way, but can you still do what I asked in the previous post??

[Nerseus]

You could probably use reflection to build up a string of "Player1" and find the actual property, but I don't think it's a very good design. There are SO many other, better options. A hashtable, for instance, allows storing data and finding it by a string name.

 

If you really want to find a control by "name" (meaning, the string translates into the actual control name) it can be done. For finding fields in a struct, I would think this is a last resort.

 

-nerseus