substring in an array

[Sonia Gupta]

i have an array of size 600 .It's type is string dim str(599) as string Each item has some value. Now my question is instead of looping for 599 times to seek the substring. Is there any function that directly find out the particular substring , without using looping.

[Manas Bhardwaj]

No :sigh:

[GoodID]

Hi, You can join that array to string variable and search the particular substring from string variable with substring function GoodID

[Dave Kreskowiak]

No, there isn't. Your only other option is to create one MASSIVE string out of all the strings in your array and use the substring method on that. The problem with this method is that it will use twice as much memory as just searching through the array because not your storing each string in the array a second time in the massive string that you built to avoid using the loop.

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[ctwalker]

You could use something other than an array. Depending on what you are trying to accomplish you may want to use an ArrayList. It has a Contains Boolean function that will let you know if an item is in the array. You might also look at the HashTable. It stores items in a Key - Value pair. Great for doing direct retrievals when you know the key.