String Array Expecting Declaration?

Question

I'm hitting the following issue in this simple code:

Public Class BookStoreDatabase

Public publicationArray(0 To 3) As String

publicationArray(0) = "Stories to Scare People With"
End Class

The bit "publicationArray(0) etc" is telling me that a declaration for "publicationArray" is expected. This seems like it shouldn't be happening.

question? what do you mean VB6 with an IDE of visual studio 2012 which doesn't support vb6 only vb.net — Mark Hall
– Mark Hall, Commented Mar 14, 2014 at 16:23

Crono · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-14 17:48:24Z

2

You cannot assign a array element at Class level. If you need it to be assigned as soon as the BookStoreDatabase class itself is instantiated, you must use a constructor:

Public Class BookStoreDatabase

    Public Sub New()
        publicationArray(0) = "Stories to Scare People With"
    End Sub

    Public publicationArray(0 To 3) As String

End Class

edited Mar 14, 2014 at 17:48

answered Mar 14, 2014 at 17:43

Crono

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Brocktoon Over a year ago

That did it, thank you so much. A lot of tutorials and online resources didn't make that clear but this makes sense.

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