[bro4mayor]

I'm trying to loop the inputbox 5 times but I'm not sure how.

 Dim payroll1 As String

        payroll1 = InputBox("What is the payrolls for store1", "Inc", , , )
        Lblstore1.Text = payroll1

i can get it to loop till a specific amount but not 5 times exactly.

[CharlieMay]

Check out this link for using loops. It should get you what you want.

[smohd]

And we have a tutorial on that in Vb.Net tutorials.

[nK0de]

bro4mayor, on 25 February 2012 - 02:15 AM, said:

i can get it to loop till a specific amount but not 5 times exactly.

what do you mean by specific amount?? of course you can set it to an exact number of times. Using a For...Next loop will be easy for you on this one.

[DimitriV]

You'd loop like this: declare an integer named x, instanced to 0, add one to it each time and loop until x = 5.

nK0de, on 25 February 2012 - 07:04 AM, said:

bro4mayor, on 25 February 2012 - 02:15 AM, said:

i can get it to loop till a specific amount but not 5 times exactly.

what do you mean by specific amount?? of course you can set it to an exact number of times. Using a For...Next loop will be easy for you on this one.

Or a Do...Loop Until x = 5 loop.

[bro4mayor]

nK0de, on 24 February 2012 - 02:04 PM, said:

bro4mayor, on 25 February 2012 - 02:15 AM, said:

i can get it to loop till a specific amount but not 5 times exactly.

what do you mean by specific amount?? of course you can set it to an exact number of times. Using a For...Next loop will be easy for you on this one.

I meant I wanted it to loop 5 times because i wanted the user to give me 5 amounts to be adding together.

[smohd]

Did you read the tutorials which we gave to you? Read them and try something, then come back with what you have tried and we will be happy to help if you have any problem with it

[bro4mayor]

smohd, on 24 February 2012 - 03:15 PM, said:

Did you read the tutorials which we gave to you? Read them and try something, then come back with what you have tried and we will be happy to help if you have any problem with it

I read them and looked at the video for the loops and came up with this.

 For payroll1 = 1 To 5 Step 1

            Console.WriteLine("payroll1 - " & payroll1)


            payroll1 = InputBox("What is the payrolls for store1", "Kenton Inc", , , )
            Lblstore1.Text = payroll1
        Next

It will loop 5 times but i think it has more to do with amount than times. I'm looking to make it loop 5 times exactly regardless of the amount while still keeping all 5 amounts.

[CharlieMay]

Well, you're on the right track. By the way, not that it really matters but the Step 1 is not required as it defaults to 1 iteration per loop. Step is better served when you want to move more than the default. Anyway... the problem you're having is that you are over-writing the .Text property each iteration.

To accumulate the total of payroll1 you need to store it back into the variable.

This is accomplished by using Lblstore1.Text = Lblstore1.Text + payroll1. In other words take what is in the Lblstore.Text and add payroll1 to it and then store it back into Lblstore1.Text.

A shorter method is
Lblstore1.Text += payroll1

Here's a good tutorial that might explain better on the topic of strings

Make sure you read the first comment where it talks about string being immutable, it's precisely what you're experiencing.

This post has been edited by CharlieMay: 24 February 2012 - 08:13 PM

[bro4mayor]

CharlieMay, on 24 February 2012 - 08:06 PM, said:

Well, you're on the right track. By the way, not that it really matters but the Step 1 is not required as it defaults to 1 iteration per loop. Step is better served when you want to move more than the default. Anyway... the problem you're having is that you are over-writing the .Text property each iteration.

To accumulate the total of payroll1 you need to store it back into the variable.

This is accomplished by using Lblstore1.Text = Lblstore1.Text + payroll1. In other words take what is in the Lblstore.Text and add payroll1 to it and then store it back into Lblstore1.Text.

A shorter method is
Lblstore1.Text += payroll1

Here's a good tutorial that might explain better on the topic of strings

Make sure you read the first comment where it talks about string being immutable, it's precisely what you're experiencing.

thanks man. I'm trying to change the code now to make it come up 5 times pricely went back and rewatched the for....next statement video