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VISUAL BASIC.NET

Working with Loops, Arrays, and Collections in VBNET Game Development
By: Peyton McCullough
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    2008-06-25

    Table of Contents:
  • Working with Loops, Arrays, and Collections in VBNET Game Development
  • For Each...Next
  • Collections
  • For Each...Next (For Real This Time)

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    Working with Loops, Arrays, and Collections in VBNET Game Development - For Each...Next (For Real This Time)


    (Page 4 of 4 )

    Now we can move on to the For Each loop. The For Each Loop, as noted before, iterates over all of the elements in a given group. We could iterate over all of the elements of an array or a collection. Let's jump right into an example. Let's create an array, populate it, and then write each element out to the screen:


    Dim numbers() As   Integer = {1, 3, 5, 7, 9}

    For Each number As   Integer   In numbers

    Console.WriteLine(number)

    Next


    In the above example, we create and initialize an array of numbers in one line. We then enter into a For Each loop where we create a variable, "number," that represents an element of the array. The value of this variable is, of course, updated before each iteration.

    We can loop through a List(T) the same way:


    Dim moreNumbers As   New List( Of   Integer )

    moreNumbers.Add(1)

    moreNumbers.Add(3)

    moreNumbers.Add(5)

    For Each number As   Integer   In moreNumbers

    Console.WriteLine(number)

    Next


    A Dictionary (TKey, TValue), however, must be treated differently, since we have both a key and a value that we need to iterate over. In order to loop over both, we need to treat both as a single KeyValuePair (Of TKey, TValue), which is a generic class used to represent both a key and a value. Let's loop over names matched to phone numbers:


    Dim phoneNumbers As   New Dictionary( Of   String , String )

    phoneNumbers.Add("Tom", "555-5551" )

    phoneNumbers.Add("Chuck", "555-5552" )

    For Each kvp As KeyValuePair( Of   String , String ) In phoneNumbers

    Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", kvp.Key, kvp.Value)

    Next


    As you can see, the KeyValuePair (Of TKey, TValue) class allows us to access both the key and the value. If, however, we do not need both the key and the value, we can just loop over one or the other:


    ' Display all names

    For Each name As   String   In phoneNumbers.Keys()

    Console.WriteLine(name)

    Next


    ' Display all phone numbers

    For Each number As   String   In phoneNumbers.Values()

    Console.WriteLine(number)

    Next


    Now that we've looked at all of the loops offered in Visual Basic, we can begin constructing the game.


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