highest used area of an array ("uBound" of used area)?
 

I have an array that will contain an unknown number of entries. To avoid
lots of re-dimming of the array as it grows, I want to initially dim it as
(1 to 10000), then if I hit 10,000 entries I want to redim it in 1000 units
at a time.

The problem is that I also need to keep track of how much of the array has
already been used, so that I can keep adding entries in the next available
slot. In the example above, uBound returns 10000 even if the array is empty.
My normal practice is to keep a separate counter variable and increment it
with each addition. Is this desired programming practice, or is there a way
to directly determine the used size of the array from VBA? It seems more
eloquent if I could use something similar to UBound to determine this value
dynamically.

Thanks!
Keith

highest used area of an array ("uBound" of used area)?
 

Counting the entries as they happen with a variable, this already happens,
yes? Seems you just need to test that or am i missing something?

David

"Ker_01" wrote:

I have an array that will contain an unknown number of entries. To avoid
lots of re-dimming of the array as it grows, I want to initially dim it as
(1 to 10000), then if I hit 10,000 entries I want to redim it in 1000 units
at a time.

The problem is that I also need to keep track of how much of the array has
already been used, so that I can keep adding entries in the next available
slot. In the example above, uBound returns 10000 even if the array is empty.
My normal practice is to keep a separate counter variable and increment it
with each addition. Is this desired programming practice, or is there a way
to directly determine the used size of the array from VBA? It seems more
eloquent if I could use something similar to UBound to determine this value
dynamically.

Thanks!
Keith