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Private Sub sortAnimals()
    Dim zooAnimals(2) As String
    zooAnimals(0) = "lion"
    zooAnimals(1) = "turtle"
    zooAnimals(2) = "ostrich"
    Array.Sort(zooAnimals)
End Sub

This example requires:

• Access to Mscorlib.dll and the System namespace.

The following conditions may cause an exception:

• Array is empty (ArgumentNullException class)

• Array is multidimensional (RankException class)

• One or more elements of the array do not implement the IComparable interface (InvalidOperationException class)