Confused of some code

O.K. waz. I think you've got the basic gist of it, but arrays can be a bit confusing at first.

Try this instead:

Dim cups$(10)

For a = 0 To 9 ; we've only got 10 elements in the array and 0 is a number.
cups$(a) = "rat "+a
Next

Print cups$(5) ; display the contents of element 5 in the array cup$ (actually the 6th element.

The reason why print cup$(a) wouldn't work is because the variable a is undefined once the for..next loop terminated. If you want to display the whole array, try this:

Dim cups$(10)

For a = 0 To 9 ; we've only got 10 elements in the array and 0 is a number.
cups$(a) = "rat "+a
Next

for b=0 to 9
Print cups$(b) ; display the contents of element b in the array cup$.
next

I hope that makes sense.

Have fun.