dynamically name dynamic arraylists

[drdave]

I would like to have ten arraylists created within a loop.. is there a
conversion or something I can do to acheive this..

pseudo:

Dim counter As Integer = 0
Dim ArrName As ArrayList

'******** LOOP OVER THE VALUES ********************

For Each y in ProvArrList

ArrName = ("Arrname") & counter.ToString
Dim ArrName As New Arraylist ()
counter = (counter + 1)
Next

course this gives me error' Value of type string cannot be converted to
system.collection.arraylist

Is there another way to accomplish this??


tia

Dave

 

[Peter Rilling]

Why not add them to a Hashtable?

 

[drdave]

I need to use Arraylists as I need the data in a specific order.. I
tried using hashtables but the data got all jumbled around.. I tried
using sortedlists as well but it sorted my data... not the way I
needed it.. (

or can I store my arraylists inside a hashtable.. hmm I had not thought
of that I'll check it out.. I would have to fill the arraylists before
adding them to the hashtable..

I eventually want to bind 10 different repeaters to the arraylists

thx.

 

[Peter Rilling]

I mean put the ArrayLists in the Hashtable. For instance.

pseudocode:

Create hash table myHT;
for x = 0 to 10
{
Create new array list newList;
Create key to identify array list (key = "array" + x);
Add new list to hashtable (myHT.add(key, newList);
}

// Now you have all the arrays and each hashtable element is your varaible.

 

[drdave]

I'll try that out..

Thx!!

 

[Karl Seguin]

If the key is going to be meaningless, why not simply add them to an
arraylist?

ArrayList list = new ArrayList(10);
for (int x = 0; i < 10; ++x)
{
list.Add(new ArrayList());
}

Karl