Dynamic Field Names & Object Error

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I'm working on converting some MatLab code to VB.NET. I'm not a programmer by trade, but I've taught myself some. Unfortunately, I'm very new VB .NET. I have two questions.

1. I'm getting an error in the If statement in the For loop, specific line is noted. Here is the code:

Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions
Imports System
Imports System.IO


Module ConforMIS_Data

    Public Structure Properties
        Public Name As Array
        Public Location As String
        Public File As String
        Public Prop As String
        Public Column As String
        Public Type As String
    End Structure

    
    Public Props As Properties
    Public PropNames() As String



    Sub Main()
        Dim path As String = "X:\default.config"
        Dim config_text() As String = File.ReadAllLines(path)

        Dim p As Integer = 0
        For i As Integer = 0 To config_text.Length - 1
            Dim PropName_RegEx As New Regex("(?<=\[PROPS.).*(?=\])")
            Dim PropName As Match = PropName_RegEx.Match(config_text(i))
            If (PropName.Length <> 0) Then
                PropNames(p) = PropName.ToString() 
                p = p + 1
                Console.WriteLine(PropName.ToString())
            End If
        Next

        Props.Name = PropNames
        Console.WriteLine(Props.Name)
        Console.Read()

    End Sub

Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I think it has something to do with declaring PropNames AS, but not actually declaring it as a new variable.

Anyhow -- if anyone has thoughts there, I would really appreciate it.

2) In MatLab, you can dynamically name structured arrays with the string value of another variable:

A = "Home"
Welcome.(A) = "Hello World!"
Disp(Welcome.Home)

The output would be "Hello World". Unfortunately, I can't find a way to do this in VB. Anyone know a simple way?

Thanks in advance!

Mike