(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I am new to visual basic(2013) and I was given the task as practice to do this little bit and I am stumped as to how to make this code simple and fully functional. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.

Task:
Place into Output which Input position the largest number is in. The answer will be one of the words: First, Second, Third, Fourth or Fifth. For example, if the input boxes contained the numbers 5, 19, 32, 2 and 4 then the Output should have “Third” in it since the largest number, the 32, was in the Input3. No compound if statements (so no And or Or) allowed, no Select Case, and no more than 5 if statements total.*

So you have. 6 textbox(one for each number). And the other one for the text, and a Button to check number location? I dont understand very well. Would u mind taking a Screenshot of the design? Maybe i can help

Use Regex, put the numbers into an array and convert to double. (incase the user inputs decimal).

From there, you will loop through each number and test, if the next number is larger, replace it as the largest value until no other numbers are larger than the largest identified value.

Then you can output the indexed position:

0 =First
1 = Second
2 = Third
3 = Fourth

Here you go, change it to however is required.

    

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using System.Windows.Forms;



namespace VBTask

{

    public partial class Form1 : Form

    {

        public Form1()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }



        List<double> numbers = new List<double>();



        private void txtNumber_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)

        {

            var key = e.KeyChar;

            

            if(!char.IsDigit(key))

            {

                e.Handled = true;

            }

        }



        private void btn_Sumbit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            double value = 0;

            int indexCount;

            double highestValue;

            int indexOfHighest;



            indexCount = numbers.Count;



            if(indexCount == 4)

            {

                highestValue = numbers.Max();

                indexOfHighest = numbers.IndexOf(highestValue) + 1;

                MessageBox.Show("Highest Value: " + highestValue.ToString() + "Index Of: " + indexOfHighest.ToString());

                numbers.Clear();

                value = 0;

                

            }

            else

            {

                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(txtNumber.Text))

                {

                    value = Convert.ToDouble(txtNumber.Text);

                    numbers.Add(value);

                    txtNumber.Clear();

                }

            }

        }

    }

}

Lol I just realized this won't let you even add decimals, so the whole converting to double is pointless unless you want to fix it in the keypress method

The title is for VB help lol :p

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Imports System.Collections.Generic

Imports System.ComponentModel

Imports System.Data

Imports System.Drawing

Imports System.Linq

Imports System.Text

Imports System.Threading.Tasks

Imports System.Windows.Forms



Namespace VBTask

	Public Partial Class Form1

		Inherits Form

		Public Sub New()

			InitializeComponent()

		End Sub



		Private numbers As New List(Of Double)()



		Private Sub txtNumber_KeyPress(sender As Object, e As KeyPressEventArgs)

			Dim key = e.KeyChar



			If Not Char.IsDigit(key) Then

				e.Handled = True

			End If

		End Sub



		Private Sub btn_Sumbit_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

			Dim value As Double = 0

			Dim indexCount As Integer

			Dim highestValue As Double

			Dim indexOfHighest As Integer



			indexCount = numbers.Count



			If indexCount = 4 Then

				highestValue = numbers.Max()

				indexOfHighest = numbers.IndexOf(highestValue) + 1

				MessageBox.Show("Highest Value: " + highestValue.ToString() + "Index Of: " + indexOfHighest.ToString())

				numbers.Clear()



				value = 0

			Else

				If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(txtNumber.Text) Then

					value = Convert.ToDouble(txtNumber.Text)

					numbers.Add(value)

					txtNumber.Clear()

				End If

			End If

		End Sub

	End Class

End Namespace



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