How to retrieve a list of items from listbox in C#

Question

Can anybody correct my codes?
I populated a listbox with emails(String).
how do i retrieve the emails from the listbox and store the emails into a studentArray??

string[] studentArray = new string[];

        foreach (ListItem email in lbxMpgroup.Items)
        {
            lblStudent.Text += email.Text + "<br>";

             for (int i = 0; i < studentArray.Length; i++)
            {
                studentArray[i] = email.Text;
            }
        }

//When i run the above code, only the first email is stored in the array....

Thanks! =)

Jan Montano · Answer

Yes it is possible. But you have to have some sort of a delimiter like a dash (-) so that your program will know what the name is and what the email address is when you read it. For example: string student = Mike Gold; string email = mike@cccsharp.com; string record = student +  -  + email; //lbxMpgroup.Items.Add(student +  -  + email); // value will be Mike Gold-mike@cccsharp.com string[] temparray = record.Split('-'); // temparray[0] will contain Mike Gold while temparray[1] will contain mike@cccsharp.com Also please have a look for ListView control for an alternative.

ezekiel wong · Answer

Hi Mr Jan Montano Thanks for sharing your code my program can run successfully. =) Now i have to make my program more user friendly. Do u have any idea how i could populate a listbox with more than 2 items? for my current listbox it only display the student email. is it possible that i display both the student email and student name yet add only the email to the studentArray? if (!IsPostBack) { object [] student = ; foreach ( string s in student) { lbxStudent.Items.Add(s); } }

Jan Montano · Answer

You could try using the for loop instead so that we could use the counter variable both for the listbox and your array. string[] studentArray = new string[lbxMpgroup.Items.Count]; for (int i = 0; i { studentArray[i] = lbxMpgroup.Items[i].ToString(); lblStudent.Text += studentArray[i] +  ; }