Assume an array of string type, and a string varible. Is
there a function or shortcut way of identifying the index
number of the first element whose value matches the value
of the variable?

One way is Excel's Match function:

Application.Match(lookup_val, arr(), 0)

returns either the index position of the value found in the list, or an
error if not found, so use a variant and trap the error using IsError.


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Assume an array of string type, and a string varible. Is
there a function or shortcut way of identifying the index
number of the first element whose value matches the value
of the variable?

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One way is Excel's Match function:

Application.Match(lookup_val, arr(), 0)

returns either the index position of the value found in
the list, or an
error if not found, so use a variant and trap the error
using IsError.


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wrote in message
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Assume an array of string type, and a string varible. Is
there a function or shortcut way of identifying the
index
number of the first element whose value matches the
value
of the variable?


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Application.Match is 1-based, so you will need to adjust for 0-based
arrays (or, for that matter, for an n-based array where n is not 1).

Alan Beban

Tim Zych wrote:
One way is Excel's Match function:

Application.Match(lookup_val, arr(), 0)

returns either the index position of the value found in the list, or an
error if not found, so use a variant and trap the error using IsError.


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Assume an array of string type, and a string varible. Is
there a function or shortcut way of identifying the index
number of the first element whose value matches the value
of the variable?