Convert range to an array - excel

I know a lot of threads regarding this topic already exist, but I still can't find a solution that works in this scenario. The following two subs keep giving me a "subscript out of range" error.
Sub test1()
Dim Arr() As Variant
Arr= Range("A1:A10")
MsgBox Arr(0)
End Sub
Sub test1()
Dim Arr As Variant
Arr= Range("A1:A10").Value
MsgBox Arr(0)
End Sub

EDITED for clarity, in light of the comments below.
Assigning a range's Value to a Variant variable will either result in the variable containing a one-based 2D array of Variants indexed by row and column (in this order), or containing the actual value of the range if it's a 1-cell range.
In your particular case, this would work:
Sub test1()
Dim Arr As Variant
Dim row As Long
Dim col As Long
row = 1
col = 1
Arr = Range("A1:A10").Value
MsgBox Arr(row, col)
End Sub
In a more general approach, if your downstream code expects to deal with an array, but you range has the possibility to cover a single cell, you can force an array even in such a situation, along those lines:
Sub test2()
Dim rng As Range
Dim Arr As Variant
Dim row As Integer
Dim col As Integer
row = 1
col = 1
Set rng = Range("A1:A1") '<== 1 cell only!
Arr = rng.Value
'Ensure we're dealing with an array even in this case.
If Not IsArray(Arr) Then
ReDim Arr(1 To 1, 1 To 1) As Variant
Arr(1, 1) = rng.Value
End If
MsgBox Arr(row, col)
End Sub

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Load a variable range into an array

I want to store a range of variable size in an one-dimensional array. The range starts at A2 and goes to the last row of the same column. My approach looks like that. It's flawed.
Option Explicit
Sub Range_to_Array()
Dim i, j, k As Integer
Dim arr1(), arr2(), arr3(), arr4() As Variant
With Worksheets("table1")
arr1() = .Cells(.Range("A2"), .Range("A1").End(xlDown).Row)
End With
End Sub
Please, try the next way. Application.Transpose transforms a 2D array with a column in a 1D type. No iteration needed:
Sub Array1DFromColumnRange()
Dim ws As Worksheet, lastR As Long, arr
Set ws = Worksheets("table1")
lastR = ws.Range("A" & ws.rows.count).End(xlUp).Row
arr = Application.Transpose(ws.Range("A2:A" & lastR).Value)
Debug.Print Join(arr, "|") 'just to visually see the result in Immediate Window (Ctrl + G)...
End Sub
The returned 1D array is 1 based, as the 2D array directly extracted from a range. To transform it in zero based type, can be done without iteration, too:
'change the array type to be zero based:
ReDim Preserve arr(0 To UBound(arr) - 1)
Debug.Print LBound(arr)
Debug.Print Join(arr, "|")
Your problem is that your Range-Definition is wrong.
Cells expect 2 parameters (row and column) to address one cell. This is not what you want, and even if, your parameters would be wrong.
What you need in your case is Range.
Now Range can be called either with one or two parameters.
If you call it with one parameter, this defines the whole range.
Examples: Range("A1") or Range("B2:C5") or Range("B:B")
Whats often used in VBA is something like Range("A1:A" & lastRow)
If you call it with two parameters, those two parameters define the first and last cell of the range.
Examples: Range(Range("A1"), Range("C10")) or Range(Cells(1, 1), Cells(10, 3))
I would advice to define an intermediate variable to save the Range - makes it much easier to debug. Also the row number of the last cell should go into an intermediate variable.
In your case you could use one of the following
Dim r As Range, lastRow As Long
' Get the last row in use (usually its better to go up from the end of the sheet)
lastRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
' 2 parameters
Set r = .Range(.Cells(2, 1), .Cells(2, lastRow))
' 1 Parameter, last row is concatenated to the range definition
Set r = .Range("A2:A" & lastRow)
' Use Resize
Set r = .Range("A2").Resize(lastRow-1, 1) ' -1 because you start at row 2
arr1 = r.Value
Try this instead.
Sub Range_to_Array()
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer, k As Integer
Dim arr1() As Variant, arr2() As Variant, arr3() As Variant, arr4() As Variant
Dim myRange As Range
With Worksheets("table1")
arr1 = .Range(.Range("A2"), .Range("A1").End(xlDown)).Value
End With
Debug.Print arr1(1, 1)
End Sub
Also please note that in order to properly declare variables, you need to specify data type for each variable separately.
Dim i, j, k As Integer
actually means
Dim i As Variant, j As Variant, k As Integer

Adjusting Range Value without For Loop

I want to remove the left character from a column of strings without looping over each cell, but I'm getting an error in Excel. Here is my code, can I do this without a for loop?
Public Sub TestRngAdjust()
Dim TestRNG As Range
Set TestRNG = Range("A1:A5")
TestRNG.NumberFormat = "#"
TestRNG.Value = Right(TestRNG.Value, Len(TestRNG.Value) - 1)
End Sub
If you don't want to loop:
Dim s As String
s = "RIGHT(" & TestRNG.Address & ",LEN(" & TestRNG.Address & ") - 1)"
TestRNG.Value = TestRNG.Parent.Evaluate(s)
But really, it's very easy to read the data into a Variant array, use Right on each element, then write the array back to the range.
Loops are not bad. They are bad when looping ranges on worksheets.
Use variant arrays to loop.
Using Variant method:
load range into a variant array.
loop the array and make changes.
assign variant array data back to range.
Public Sub TestRngAdjust()
Dim TestRNG As Range
Set TestRNG = Range("A1:A5")
Dim rngarr As Variant
rngarr = TestRNG.Value
Dim i As Long
For i = 1 To UBound(rngarr, 1)
rngarr(i, 1) = Mid$(rngarr(i, 1), 2)
Next i
TestRNG.NumberFormat = "#"
TestRNG.Value = rngarr
End Sub

Loop through array to find results from formulas

I have a column that has text in some cells and formulas in the others. When I'm trying to loop through an array to search for some values in the columns, I can't seem to reference the values as a result of formulas. For example, I'm trying to do conditional statements like If arr(i, 15) = "String" Then but String is the result of a Vlookup.
printing the entire array gives me the formulas, not the results
Sub test()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim arr As Variant
Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
arr = ws.Range("A1").CurrentRegion.Formula
For i = LBound(arr, 1) To UBound(arr, 1)
If Not IsError(arr(i, 15)) Then 'Some of the values are #NA
Debug.Print arr(i, 15)
End If
Next i
End Sub
If you only want to obtain value from cells formula not result in error, probably array may not suitable in such case, use For loop will achieve your expected input also. In my example, Range("E3) is not printed due to error, you can combine with lastrow for dynamic range:
I add version 2 here for using array looping, the outcome skip to print Range("E2") due to error, hope it help :)
Sub test()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim arr As Variant
Dim i As Long
Dim textValue As String
Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet2")
arr = ws.Range("D1").CurrentRegion.Value
For i = LBound(arr) To UBound(arr)
textValue = CStr(arr(i, 2))
If InStr(textValue, "Error") <= 0 Then 'Some of the values are #NA
Debug.Print textValue
End If
Next i
End Sub
your code has an End If without if
To get the value of the formula, use Evaluate(formula), this line only work if send a formula as parameter, use on error resume next if is possible to sent errors, empty values or not formula values... Good Luck
Sub test()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim arr As Variant
Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
arr = ws.Range("A1").CurrentRegion.Formula
For i = LBound(arr, 1) To UBound(arr, 1)
On Error Resume Next
If Not IsError(arr(i, 15)) Then 'Some of the values are #
Debug.Print Evaluate(arr(i, 15))
'End If
End If
Next I
End Sub

Alternative solution for looping through the Range in VBA

Recently I was wondering about the possibility of speeding up the program by switching a part of the code below:
Dim cell as Variant
Dim myValues() as Double
ReDim myValues(myRange.Count - 1)
Dim i as Integer: i = 0
For Each cell in myRange.Cells
myValue(i) = cell.Value
i = i + 1
Next cell
into a loop where I could refer to the value of each cell directly, instead of instantiating a cell object, assigning it a cell value from a given range, and then extracting the cell value.
In my mind, the pseudocode would look something like this:
Dim cellValue as Double
Dim myValues() as Double
ReDim myValues(myRange.Count - 1)
Dim i as Integer: i = 0
For each cellValue in myRange.Cells.Values
myValues(i) = cellValue
i = i + 1
Next cellValue
If my overall concept is wrong from the start, or if you can't get the cells values from Range faster, then there was no question.
Due to the fact that this is my first post, I could have written something incorrectly / in wrong posting convention. Let me know and I'll fix it.
Cheers
As #SJR notes, this is a common way to access data from a range without going cell-by-cell
Dim arr, i as long, rng As Range
Set rng = Activesheet.Range("A1:B20")
arr = rng.Value 'arr is now a 2D array (1 To 20, 1 To 2)
'Note: base is 1 and not the more-typical 0
For i = 1 to ubound(arr,1)
Debug.Print arr(i, 1), arr(i, 2)
Next i
arr(3, 2) = 999
rng.value = arr 'put the data back to the range
If the reason is for getting rid of the 2D array a function like this can be the solution:
Function VectorFromRange(rng As Range) As Variant
Dim arrIn As Variant
arr = rng.value 'Dumping the data from range
Dim i As Long
Dim item As Variant
ReDim arrOut(1 To rng.Cells.Count) As Variant
For Each item In arr
i = i + 1
arrOut(i) = item
Next item
VectorFromRange = arrOut
End Function

Fill dynamic array with the rows of visible cells

I am getting an error of "Subscript out of Range" when I'm trying to add the row value, of visible cells (minus the header) to the array. Below the code:
Dim Rng As Range
Dim r As Range
Dim i as Long
Dim arr() As Long
Set Rng = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Resize(ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count - 1, ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count).Offset(1, 0).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
i = 0
For Each r In Rng.Rows
'Debug.Print r.Row
arr(i) = r.Row
i = i + 1
Next
Am I forgetting something ?! I'm still new to VBA and more so, to arrays.
This function works fine...
I didn't get how you are calculating the range... but this output is coming out of the range only.. array is totally dynamic
Sub foo()
Dim Rng As Range
Dim r As Range
Dim i As Long
Dim arr() As Variant
Set Rng = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Resize(ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count - 1, ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count).Offset(1, 0).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
i = 1
For Each r In Rng.Rows
ReDim Preserve arr(i)
arr(i) = r.Row
Debug.Print arr(i)
i = i + 1
Next
End Sub
As already pointed out, you have to define the array. You can give it a fixed size when defining it (Dim arr(2) as Integer).
Dynamic ranges can be made with using ReDim. With Preserve it saves the values in the array when redefining the size. (Note: You can only ReDim the last dimension of an array)
The problem is that although you are declaring the array, you haven't initialised it with a size, so there are no elements in the array hence the subscript out of range.
Your code should read, note the other problem you will have is how you are trying to address the range, I have corrected below:
Dim Rng As Range, r As Range
Dim i as integer
Dim ary() as Long
Set Rng = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Resize(ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count - 1, ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count).Offset(1, 0).SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible)
Redim ary(Rng.Rows.Count)
i = 0
For Each r In Rng.Rows
'Debug.Print r.Row
arr(i) = CLng(r.Row)
i = i + 1
Next
This is a tested and working example

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