davcaw

i have a string and an array of strings. I want to see if the array contains the string and if it does, get the index. I tried array.binarysearch(), but it always returns -2001 whether it exists or not.

OnErr0r

Post a code snippet of how you're doing this.

robM

This should get it done:

Dim txt As String
txt = "text to be found"

Dim txt_array(##) As String
'the array is filled up with desired data.

Dim i As Integer

For i = 0 To txt_array.Length - 1 ' length starts at 1, but indexing starts at 0
If txt = txt_array(i) Then
MsgBox(i)
End If
Next

Iceplug

To use BinarySearch, you have to Sort it first.

Array.Sort(xyz)
Res = Array.BinarySearch(xyz, "h")
something like this.

davcaw

well, i ran in to another problem. The reason it wasn't working was because the string had a "p" on the end that was not supposed to be there. It seems that when i use the remove function, it removes the letters i tell it to, but then it adds a letter "p" to the end

Iceplug

And what line does this occur on?
It must be something that you are accidentally assigning. You should be able to check by adding a few messagebox.Show statements.