You could use a dictionary. First, store your values from your
config file into a dictionary, and then copy them to your local
variables, if you so desire.
// get info from config file
Dim dTmp As New Dictionary
For... loop through your config file
dTmp.Value(<key>) = <value>
Next
// copy info to variables
weight = dTmp.Lookup("weight", <defaultvalue>)
maxSpeed = dTmp.Lookup("maxSpeed", <defaultvalue>)
// done.
HTH
Andrew Keller
On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Kevin Windham wrote:
Is there a smart way to access an object and it's properties from a
string.
Suppose I have an object of class Car and properties of weight and
maxSpeed. If I read in a config file that has some config
parameters for this car,
weight: 5000
maxSpeed: 248
along with a whole bunch of other parameters, is there a decent way
to set up my code to fill those parameters in without using a bunch
of case of if statements?
i.e.
case paramstring = "weight"
weight = paramstringvalue
etc. for pages and pages.
Thanks,
Kevin
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