Grouping String Variables With Their Names?

Dec 13, 2010

I am trying to reduce the amount of code I have and make it more maintainable and flexible. (I.E Do it the right way). I have a bunch of (48) Form controls (text boxes) and when I click next on that form I save all their text values to some 48 global string variables. The names of these variables are the same as the Text Boxes but with "_saved" appended to them.

For any given operation instead of having a separate line for each control it's nice to just use a loop. I can easily write some code to operate on each Control (set visibility, enabled etc) by using Me.Controls and a For Each Loop. I can even make collections of fractional groups of the 48 controls. For example, If cntrl.name.startswith("sometext") collection.add or perform some other operation only on that subgroup etc.

I'd like to do something similar with my Saved Public String Variables. For example I would like to do the following loop somehow but don't know how to group Variables together and keep their name in a way where I can define that array or collection on 1 line or just a couple lines.

' But this next line only groups the values
Group_of_string_Variables = {Var1, Var2, Var3, Var4}
For Each Name_of_String_Variable In Group_of_string_variables

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But I can not access the name of a variable or find a way to easily group in key/value 48 different ones without needing much more than 50 lines of code to make either a 2-dim array, a collection, or a hash.

I'm sure someone will tell me I should be doing it a completely different way. That would be ok as long as I don't have to change too much of my other code. I thought of making an object of some kind instead of a variable so I could access 2 object properties- name and value then I could group those objects in a collection as I have done before. But that seems like it would be many more lines of code and I'm not sure it would work.

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