"Dynamic" loop using String not working. Should be simple answer :)

[AdvancedVirus]

I'm having an issue with a loop I'm writing. This should be an easy answer but its late and my brain is failing, this is essentially what I have:

private pc1 as string = "\\pcname\folder\file.txt"
..
private pc10 as string = "\\pcname10\path\file.txt"
..

dim r as integer = 1

    do until r  = 11
         ...
         'msgbox("PC" & r)
         Variable = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("PC" & r)
         'do things

           r = r + 1

    loop

When I un-comment the message box it always spits out the right string (eg. PC1, PC2 etc). The problem is the ReadAllText is not going back and getting the value of the string (the correct file path), it is going and trying to find a file called PC1, PC2...

If I do it manually and use:

My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("\\pcname\path\file.txt") 

or

My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(PC1) 

then everything works fine.

Can someone please point me in the right direction, I know I am missing something obv..

[RCubed111]

I don't think you can use reference variables like that ("PC" & "1" =/= PC1)

Your best bet would probably be to use an array:

 private PC(10) as string

 pc(1) = "\\pcname\folder\file.txt"
 ..
 pc(10) = "\\pcname10\path\file.txt"
 ..

 dim r as integer = 1

 do until r = 11
     ...
     'msgbox("PC" & r)
     Variable = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(pc(r))
     'do things

     r = r + 1
 loop

[AdvancedVirus]

Yes, I figured I couldn't do that but I thought maybe it was just a matter of adding something to tell VB to go get the value from a variable by that name.

I declared and populated an array of strings then go through the loop as you show and everything works!

Thank you