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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	2011-12-22 08:49 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<jcvcgk$mq7$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Nobody expressed precisely :
> "GS" <gs@somewhere.net> wrote in message news:jctikl$3nu$1@dont-email.me...
>> It happens that Thorsten Albers formulated :
>>> GS <gs@somewhere.net> schrieb im Beitrag <jctbf4$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.
>
> It's not just for variants. Sample code has already been written:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vb.winapi.networks/msg/a940888c6c65b515

Thanks very much! This is similar to Thorsten's suggestion and is 
definitely worth having. I really appreciate you sharing this...

-- 
Garry

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  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
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