VB - comparing numbers in two labels - vb.net

Question

I'm doing a school project in Visual Basic (using visual studio 2015) and i'm kinda stuck.
My goal is to create a lottery, where player chooses 6 numbers from checkboxes, then he generates six random numbers (1 - 49) and finally, those two sets should be compared and needed result is the number of correctly guessed numbers.
I have both results (guessed numbers, generated numbers) saved in two different labels.
The checkboxes itself are genereted like this:
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
lev = 20
tt = 0
For j = 1 To 50
tt = tt + 1
n = n + 1
box(j) = New CheckBox
box(j).Name = "box(" & Str(j) & ")"
If n = 11 Then lev = lev + 110 : n = 1 : tt = 1
box(j).Left = lev
box(j).Parent = Me
box(j).Top = tt * 20
box(j).Tag = j
box(j).Text = j
box(j).Visible = True
Next
box(50).Enabled = False
End Sub
First label (guessed numbers) is filled this way (i'm not posting whole code)
For j = 1 To 50
If box(j).Checked = True Then Label9.Text = Label9.Text + " " + box(j).Text
Next
and the second one (generated numbers) like this:
Do
rn = rg.Next(1, 50)
If Not r.Contains(rn) Then
r.Add(rn)
End If
Loop Until r.Count = 6
Label1.Text = r(0).ToString + " " + r(1).ToString + " " + r(2).ToString + " " + r(3).ToString + " " + r(4).ToString + " " + r(5).ToString
any idea how to compare numbers stored in those labels and get the result (number of correctly guessed numbers).
thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can compare numbers in the labels by splitting the Text properties of the labels into arrays of strings and converting them to integer arrays. First though there is a tiny problem with your code that adds the guessed numbers to the label.
For j = 1 To 50
If box(j).Checked = True Then Label9.Text = Label9.Text + " " + box(j).Text
Next
The " " should be moved to the end of the line because at the moment, the label will always start with a space and that messes with the function below. So you should have -
For j = 1 To 50
If box(j).Checked = True Then Label9.Text = Label9.Text + box(j).Text + " "
Next
Ok. The function below splits the two text labels into their own array and loops through the guesses and checks if any number is contained in the generated numbers. It then returns the number of matches.
Private Function ComparePicks() As Integer
Dim numbersMatched As Integer
Dim picks(5) As Integer
Dim generatedNumbers(5) As Integer
For i As Integer = 0 To 5
picks(i) = CInt(Split(Label9.Text, " "c)(i))
Next
For i As Integer = 0 To 5
generatedNumbers(i) = CInt(Split(Label1.Text, " "c)(i))
Next
For i As Integer = 0 To 5
If generatedNumbers.Contains(picks(i)) Then
numbersMatched += 1
End If
Next
Return numbersMatched
End Function