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Re: Arrays Q

From	GS <gs@somewhere.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
Subject	Re: Arrays Q
Date	2011-12-21 23:11 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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It happens that ralph formulated :
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:21:23 -0500, GS <gs@somewhere.net> wrote:
>
>> It happens that Thorsten Albers formulated :
>>> GS <gs@somewhere.net> schrieb im Beitrag <jctbf4$kpb$1@dont-email.me>...
>>>> What I'm looking for is a way to determine how many dims an unknown 
>>>> array is. Currently I use a Do...Loop with a counter that exits when a 
>>>> trapped error occurs. I don't think I'd ever encounter more than a 3D 
>>>> array, but a generic method to determine how many dims and how to get 
>>>> their respective ubounds is what I'm hoping someone can help me with.
>>> 
>>> Try SafeArrayGetDim()  (OLEAUT32.DLL).
>> 
>> Thank you! I'll take a look at that function. There's really not much 
>> call to get this info unless a variant passed to a 3rd party component 
>> returns a multi-dim array. As I explained to MikeD, I currently loop 
>> arrays with unknown dims to do this but would like to find a better way 
>> to handle this task. I appreciate your input...
>
> It depends on what you are doing with the information, but in most
> cases you don't actually need to know the exact dimensions.
>
> You can do a For...Each for each 'sub-array' and trap the error when
> you advance one too far. 
>
> -ralph

Thanks Ralph! As I mentioned to MikeD, that's how I do it now only 
using a Do...Loop Until Err > 0. Seems to serve the need and so I'll 
continue with that for now. When I get time I'll look into Thorsten's 
suggestion.

Thanks for your input. I really appreciate your contributions here...

-- 
Garry

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Arrays Q GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-12-21 13:32 -0500
  Re: Arrays Q "MikeD" <nobody@nowhere.edu> - 2011-12-21 13:59 -0500
    Re: Arrays Q GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-12-21 14:18 -0500
      Re: Arrays Q "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2011-12-21 21:09 +0000
        Re: Arrays Q GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-12-21 16:21 -0500
          Re: Arrays Q ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-12-21 20:25 -0600
            Re: Arrays Q GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-12-21 23:11 -0500
          Re: Arrays Q "Nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> - 2011-12-22 07:18 -0500
            Re: Arrays Q GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2011-12-22 08:49 -0500
  Re: Arrays Q "RB Smissaert" <bart.smissaert@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 00:13 +0000
    Re: Arrays Q GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-18 19:27 -0500

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