Question

I’m trying to concatenate two properties into one string like so:

public class thing 
    public property word() as string()
    public property count() as integer()
end class

Public class myApp
    dim a_thing as new thing
    redim a_thing.word(upperBnd)
    redim a_thing.count(upperBnd)

    'I go on to fill the a_thing.word and .count arrays
    'Then I try to display the results...but it doesnt work.
    for i=0 to a_thing.word.length-1
        debug.writeline("Word: " & a_thing.word(i) & "  Count: " & a_thing.count(i))
    next
end class

The for statement just displays:

Word: [the_word_in_the_array] Word: [the_word_in_the_next_index] ...etc,         

with no new lines…

If I turn this into two debug.writeline statements, I get:

Word: [the_word_in_the_array] Count: [the_count_in_the_array]

This is what I want, but it doesn’t help that its in the debug output…I need to put it into a single string. I’ve tried using a_thing.count(i).tostring, but it doesnt work. If I look at the arrays individually, they have exactly the contents I want. But I can’t concatenate them. Whats going on here? Does it have something to do with suppressing the new line that debug.writeline usually creates?

Answer 1

Check to see if there are Null characters at the end of the words in the Word array. That would cause the behaviour that you’re seeing