regarding the ubound function
 

Okay so Im trying to do this:


and it compiles nicely but when i run it it flags the line that calls Ubound() (the definition of the For loop or whatever it's called) and it says:

I kind of know what this means but I just started using VB.NET because Im used to C and PHP mostly (OSS LAMP stuff) so can somebody tell me how i can fix this problem? thanks.

I don't know .NET myself, but I would have to ask, "What are you expecting the value of "Functions" to be?". You haven't set it to anything that I can see.

The value for the "Functions" string cannot be NULL, blank, etc... this will more than likely break the Ubound function and cause the error that you listed. Try assigning a value to the "Functions" string and giving it another go.

Functions isn't an array - it doesn't have a UBound. Try For C = 0 To Functions.Length - 1 instead.

Ah you're being far to complex and subtle for VB.

Pretend Strings don't exist, and declare it as an array of type Char or Byte.

Or better still use C.

I would guess he was looking for a solution to his problem, rather than a redirection in his career path or tools or a way to sneak past his problem voodoo-wise. It isn't invariably necessary to initialize things in every language extant, but it often is. VB is more strongly typed than, say, Javascript. I suspect that the solutions, proposed a couple weeks ago, fixed 'im up, one way or another.