I didn’t know that Visual Basic Express Edition could handle a string as an Array. Some programming languages require you to use individual characters and then create an array of these to create a string, so I guess that is what is going on. I also found this article on spiting and joining arrays.

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim UserString As String

Getstring(UserString)

DisplayString(UserString)

End Sub

Private Sub GetString(ByRef UserString As String)

UserString = InputBox(“What is your name”)

End Sub

Private Sub DisplayString(ByVal UserString As String)

For Counter = 0 To (Len(UserString) – 1)

ListBox1.Items.Add(UserString(Counter))

Next

End Sub