dynamically set the size of an array in excel vba - excel

Through VBA code, I shall determine the size of one array, say knownarray(). The size of this array may be different each time. Depending upon its size, I need to initialize another array of the same size.How should I do that
for eg:
knownarray() size = 4
so now i need to create an array of size 4 with name say newarray()
What I have done so far is something as follows:
ReDim NewArray(KnownArray.Size)
I know this must be easy but being a novice in VBA i am stuck. Can someone please help me out?
Thanking in advance

Sub Main()
Dim strArr(2 To 4) As String
strArr(2) = "element1"
strArr(3) = "element2"
ReDim anotherArr(LBound(strArr) To UBound(strArr)) As String
Debug.Print "the size:" = UBound(anotherArr) - LBound(anotherArr)
End Sub

Another way, especially if you want the values of the first array, is to just make a copy of the existing array:
Dim knownArray(2 To 4) As String
Dim copyArr() As String
copyArr() = knownArray()
Here copyArr is now another different array with the same dimensions and the same values. You would only do this if you wanted the values too. If not, the ReDim with bounds answer by #[me how] is the best solution.

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Remove duplicates in VBA Combobox

I have the below code to populate a listbox, therefore I want to remove duplicates from my combobox. I Don't know how to do it:
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim ws_suivi As Worksheet
Set ws_suivi = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("suivi")
Fin_Liste_suivi = ws_suivi.Range("A65530").End(xlUp).Row
For i = 2 To Fin_Liste_suivi
UserForm_SDE.ComboBox_Type_Rapp.AddItem ws_suivi.Range("AD" & i)
Next
UserForm_SDE.Show
End Sub
It is often worth searching to see if a Library for VBA exists that will save you reinventing the wheel.
It is a particular annoyance of VBA that whilst we have such useful structures as Collections and Scripting.Dictionaries there is no easy way to get information into such objects or to do much processing of the data once those objects are populated.
I had a project which had a lot of processing of arrays/scripting.dictionariews and to make my life a little easier I created a VBA library in C# called Kvp (for Key Value Pairs) which is a bit like a Scripting.Dictionary on steriods.
You can download the library, source code, documentation for the Kvp object from here
Once you have added a reference to the Kvp library you can declare a Kvp object in the standard way.
Dim myKvp as Kvp
Set myKvp=New Kvp
You can then add a 1D range from an excel spreadsheet in a single statement
myKvp.AddByIndexFromArray <excel range>.Value
which gives a Kvp of long integers vs cell values
The OP wishes a list of unique values. To do this with a Kvp we can use the Mirror method to create a Kvp of the unique values.
Dim myMirroredKvp as Kvp
set myMirroredKvp=myKvp.Mirror
The Mirror method returns a Two item Kvp where item 0 is a Kvp of unique items vs the first Key at which the item was found and item 1 is a Kvp of original Keys vs value where the values are a duplicate.
You can then get an array of the keys using the GetKeys method
Dim myUniqueValues as Variant
myUniqueValues = myMirroredKvp.GetItem(0).GetKeys
Or should you want the items sorted in reverse order
myUniqueValues - myMirroredKvp.GetItem(0).GetKeysDescending
The above can be shortened to
myUniqueValues = myKvp.Mirror.GetItem(0).GetKeysDescending
I've found the Kvp library quite useful. I hope you do to!!
While you could load the list to a Dictionary, you might find it simpler to try using WorksheetFunction.CountIf to check if the item is further up your list (and has, thus, already been included):
If (i=2) OR (WorksheetFunction.CountIf(ws_suivi.Range(ws_suivi.Cells(2,30),ws_suivi.Cells(i-1,30)), ws_suivi.cells(i,30).Value)<1) Then
UserForm_SDE.ComboBox_Type_Rapp.AddItem ws_suivi.Range("AD" & i)
End If
As a side-note: Since Excel 2007 increased the Row Limit from 65536 (216) to 1048576 (220), you may want to change Fin_Liste_suivi = ws_suivi.Range("A65530").End(xlUp).Row to Fin_Liste_suivi = ws_suivi.Cells(ws_suivi.Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row
I found :
Dim Valeur As String
Dim i As Integer
Dim j As Integer
'For each element in the list
For i = 0 To lst_ref.ListCount - 1
Valeur = Combobox.List(i)
For j = i + 1 To Combobox.ListCount - 1
'If the element exist, delete it
If Valeur = Combobox.List(j) Then
Call Combobox.RemoveItem(j)
End If
Next j
Next i
It take the beggining of the combobox and check if the value is red again in to the end of the combobox.

(Excel) Pick formula criteria/logical etc from another cell(reference)

Im writing an If+Or function and would like to use several cell references for the different Logicals in the function, instead of writing each logical statements in the original if+or function. Any ideas of how to solve this? Hope im not too unclear here..
As example: instead of writing =If(or(A1=A2,A3=A4),A1,0) I would like to write out all different logical values in a list of cells, and the just write the original if+or formula like this: =IF(OR(B1),A1,0) where B1 contains the text "A1=A2,A3=A4"
Thanks for any help on this!
You can use the INDIRECT function.
For example, if the value in cell A6 is 10, INDIRECT("A6") = 10.
So basically you can write INDIRECT("A6")=INDIRECT("A7") instead of the A1=A2 condition in your IF formula.
If you want to have "A1=A2" in one cell, you can use LEFT and RIGHT.
Here is an example: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/157tRicA55TFKKOi86yYBQScnjaQE6fYxaCHFdZx4uUM/edit?usp=sharing
PS: this solution is for Google Sheets so the solution might differ a little if you're using Excel but that should work for Excel too.
You CANNOT Have It All
Instead of using =IF(OR(B1),A1,0) you have to use
e.g. =IFOR(B1,A1) (I prefer "" instead of 0, sorry)
or =IFOR(B1,A1,0) if you (prefer 0 instead of ""),
or change the ElseValue in the declaration to 0,
then you can use =IFOR(B1,A1) to get 0.
Function IFOR(IfOrCell As Range, ThenCell As Range, _
Optional ElseValue As Variant = "", _
Optional SplitDelimiter As String = ",") As Variant
'Description:
'Pending...
'Recalculation
Application.Volatile
'Variables
Dim arrIfOr As Variant
Dim iIfOr As Integer
Dim blnIfOr As Boolean
'The Array: The Split
If InStr(IfOrCell.Value2, SplitDelimiter) = 0 Then Exit Function
arrIfOr = Split(IfOrCell.Value2, SplitDelimiter)
'An Additional Split Introducing the Boolean
For iIfOr = LBound(arrIfOr) To UBound(arrIfOr)
If InStr(arrIfOr(iIfOr), "=") <> 0 Then
If Range(Split(arrIfOr(iIfOr), "=")(0)).Value2 _
= Range(Split(arrIfOr(iIfOr), "=")(1)).Value2 Then
blnIfOr = True
Exit For
End If
End If
Next
'Output
If blnIfOr = True Then
IFOR = ThenCell.Value2
Else
IFOR = ElseValue
End If
End Function

Finding a certain type of String in Visual Basic and replacing it

I'm currently trying to automate our accounting process. From the bank, I download a .csv file that I'd like to transform in a certain way. I'm also attempting to eliminate all IBAN and BIC numbers from the document as they're not necessary for the accounting process.
Now, every IBAN and BIC follows a certain pattern. How do I replace all strings with a certain pattern (i.e. XX00000000000000 and DEXXXXXXXXX) or at least how do I find them using Visual Basic? I'm familiar with the .replace method already, I just cannot manage to find the string.
Thank you so much in advance!
I think this should help you:
RegEx
An another way could be to load each textline of the .csv file into an array and just Loop through them.
Something like:
Dim Textline() As String 'array
Dim IBAN As String
Dim posIBAN As Integer
Dim iban_length As Integer
textlinelength = UBound(Textline)
iban_length = 22
For i = 0 To textlinelength
If InStr(Textline(i), "DE") Then 'if array contains DE
posIBAN = InStr(Textline(i), "DE") 'find position of IBAN
IBAN = Mid(Textline(i), posIBAN, iban_length) 'get IBAN
Textline(i) = Replace(Textline(i), IBAN, "") 'replace IBAN with ""
End If
Next i
After that you could create a new file and write the arrays in it.
So you would have a IBAN-free txt-file
PS: Is there a way to properly link other questions/answers?

Excel VBA - Add 1-dimensional array to multi-dimensional array without looping

I have a question regarding "creating a matrix" out of single arrays wihtout having to loop through:
From a function I get back one array with data (Return_Calc, rows = n-1). I am looking for something like
Output(n-1, j-1) = Return_Calc(Nav_Range)
At the moment, I am doing this:
Temp = Return_Calc(Nav_range)
For i = 1 To n - 1
Output(i - 1, j - 1) = Temp(i - 1)
Next i
The current option works. I was just wondering if there is another possibility without looping. Thanks for your help!
I'm not sure if you would be happy with that proposal. It presents possibility of creating Array-of-Arrays which, in some situation, would work similar to Multidimensional Array. You could consider solving your problems this way.
Here is a sample code how to create and which way you could retrieve data from final array.
Sub Array_Workaround()
Dim oneDimArrA, oneDimArrB
oneDimArrA = Array(1, 2, 3, 4)
oneDimArrB = Array("A", "B", "C", "D")
Dim multiDimArr
'creating multidemmnsional array
multiDimArr = Array(oneDimArrA, oneDimArrB)
'get element- different to standard syntax
Debug.Print multiDimArr(0)(0) '--> 1
Debug.Print multiDimArr(0)(1) '--> 2
Debug.Print multiDimArr(1)(1) '--> B
End Sub
There is one important benefit of presented solution- each internal array can have different dimension.

populate combobox in VBA with array elements

I have a VBA procedure (in Excel 2007) where I aspire to set the ListFillRange property of a combobox styled as a list using an array.
I know this works if I right click the combobox and write "Sheet1!$F2:$F17" next to the "ListFillRange" property. I can also do this in code. However, I am interested in dynamically setting the value of this property by assigning it an array.
I know for sure the array works as I tested it; there is probably a syntax error here:
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").OLEObjects("cmbS").ListFillRange = ar
when I do this I get:
"Type mismatch" error.
The result of this action should be that the component is populated with the array elements, from element(0) ... to the last element (n-1) of the array. Any pointers, thank you very much!
I also tried:
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").cmbS.list = ar
and it says "permission denied"
Here are the combobox properties in case it helps:
After testing and trying, I found this works:
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").cmbS.ListFillRange = ""
Dim i As Integer
For i = LBound(ar) To UBound(ar)
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").cmbS.AddItem (ar(i))
Next
However, I am interested in populating with all values at once for faster effect, not just adding element by element.
I know its late but maybe it is going to help someone else. At least the following code works (much faster than element for element) for me.
dim arr() as variant
arr = Worksheets("Total").Range("C2:"&lrow).Value
Worksheets("Menu").ComboBox2.List = arr
The only way you can populate a combobox with the content of an array is by doing it element by element. I find it hard to believe that it would be a notably slow process no matter how large your array is.

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