IndexOf with String array in VB.NET

vb.net indexof arrays
Eugene picture Eugene · Sep 8, 2010 · Viewed 43.5k times · Source

How would I find the index of an item in the string array in the following code:

Dim arrayofitems() as String
Dim itemindex as UInteger
itemindex = arrayofitems.IndexOf("item test")
Dim itemname as String = arrayofitems(itemindex)

I'd like to know how I would find the index of an item in a string array. (All of the items are lowercase, so case shouldn't matter.)

Answer

Hans Olsson picture Hans Olsson · Sep 8, 2010

It's a static (Shared) method on the Array class that accepts the actual array as the first parameter, as:

Dim arrayofitems() As String
Dim itemindex As Int32 = Array.IndexOf(arrayofitems, "item test")
Dim itemname As String = arrayofitems(itemindex)

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