Thanks...I was sorting the arrays and then comparing them item-by-item.

Both your code and Jim's were mush faster than mine.
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"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote:

This was a good problem! I'm almost completely sure<g that this function
works correctly (with text or numeric arrays or Variant arrays containing
text or numeric values)...

Function IsSameContent(ByVal Arr1 As Variant, _
ByVal Arr2 As Variant) As Boolean
Dim X As Long
Dim Count() As Long
Dim ArrayString As String
If (VarType(Arr1) < vbArray) Or (VarType(Arr2) < vbArray) Or _
(UBound(Arr1) - LBound(Arr1) < UBound(Arr2) - LBound(Arr2)) Then
Exit Function
End If
ReDim Count(0 To UBound(Arr1) - LBound(Arr1))
ArrayString = Chr$(1)
For X = LBound(Arr1) To UBound(Arr1)
ArrayString = CStr(ArrayString) & Arr1(X) & Chr$(1)
Next
IsSameContent = True
For X = LBound(Arr2) To UBound(Arr2)
If InStr(ArrayString, Chr$(1) & Arr2(X) & Chr$(1)) = 0 Then
IsSameContent = False
Exit Function
Else
ArrayString = Replace(ArrayString, Arr2(X), "", , 1)
End If
Next
End Function


Rick


"Gary''s Student" wrote in message
...
I need a Boolean function that, given two input arrays of equal size, will
return TRUE if the contents of the arrays are the same (apart from order),
otherwise FALSE.

For example, if array 1 contained:
1,2,3,4
and array 2 contained:
2,3,1,4
then the function should return TRUE


If array 1 contained:
1,1,6,7
and array 2 contained:
7,1,6,2
then the function should return FALSE.

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