Visual Studio .net Programming Help. Read in a single character

[austin316]

Ok, I have a simple question that I don't know how to answer. The user enters a word into a text box, and I need to read that word as individual characters. IE. user enters the word "apple" and I want to read that as A, P, P, L, E. Then those letters would get converted into numbers, through a simple case statement. Thanks in advance.

 

[Descartes]

The TextBox is inherited from Control as a property returning a String. As such, you can access any individual character using the indexer:

string testString = "apple";
//testString[0] == 'a'
//testString[1] == 'b'

etc.

If you're using VB.NET, just use the Chars property of the string instead:

Dim testString As String = "apple"
' testString.Chars(0)
' testString.Chars(1)

etc.