The document introduces arrays as a way to store multiple items of the same type in a single variable. It explains that arrays allow storing multiple names in one variable, rather than declaring separate variables for each name. The document also describes how arrays are declared with the total number of items to store, and how each item is accessed via its index number, with the first item having an index of 0.

1. REGULAR VARIABLES For each item of information that we wish to store we need to declare a seperate variable This can become very confusing if we have multiple items of the same type to store

2. To store 3 individual names we need to declare 3 seperate variables strName1 strName2 strName3

3. New method of storing information We can use a special type of variable called an "Array" to store multiple items in a single variable We declare an Array very similar to a variable Dim strName (5) as String The (5) represents the number of items that we wish to store in our array

4. strName(5) would look like this We refer to each individual cell in the array by its "INDEX" number An array starts with an index of 0

5. To place information into the first cell of the array we would do it as follows strName(0) = "Casey" To place information into the forth cell we would do the following strName(3) = "Roger"

6. Casey Roger To retrieve information from an array and display it to a label we would do the following lblOutput.Caption = strName( ) To display Casey we would write lblOutput.Caption = strName(0) To display Roger we would write lblOutput.Caption = strName(3)