SortedList Class

[sburden]

Hello,

I'm a newbie to VB .NET and I'm trying to code a SortedList class. The Add method is giving me difficulty. I understand that it's looking for two arguments: the key and the value associated with that key. However, my key consists of two fields (First Name and Last Name). How do I construct the statement to reflect that?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Stevie

 

[JohnYingling]

Concatenate the fields with each field padded to the maximum size that field can be. Assumiong that Last Name is the major field and each field is a maximum of 40 characters then

Dim sKey = LastName.PadRight(40) & Firstname.PadRight(40)

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[chiph]

Another way would be to use the GetHashCode function:

Dim MyHash As Integer
MyHash = LastName.GetHashCode Xor FirstName.GetHashCode

This would produce a unique value for each uniqe LastName & FirstName pair. If you had two records with the same name, they would hash to the same value.

GetHashCode is inherited from Object, which all classes ultimately inherit from.

Chip H.


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[sburden]

Thank-you!