Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

Chapter 8. Arrays

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.

—Isaiah 30:8

With sobs and tears he sorted out Those of the largest size...

—Lewis Carroll

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;

Nothing’s so hard, but search will find it out.

—Robert Herrick

Begin at the beginning, ... and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

—Lewis Carroll

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short

—Confucius

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn: To use the array data structure; arrays are objects. How arrays are used to store, sort and search lists and tables of values. To declare, initialize and refer to individual elements of arrays. To pass arrays to methods using ByVal and ByRef. To declare and manipulate multidimensional ...