Excel VBA - How to Redim a 2D array?

Question

In Excel via Visual Basic, I am iterating through a CSV file of invoices that is loaded into Excel. The invoices are in a determinable pattern by client.

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Answer 1

I know this is a bit old but I think there might be a much simpler solution that requires no additional coding:

Instead of transposing, redimming and transposing again, and if we talk about a two dimensional array, why not just store the values transposed to begin with. In that case redim preserve actually increases the right (second) dimension from the start. Or in other words, to visualise it, why not store in two rows instead of two columns if only the nr of columns can be increased with redim preserve.

the indexes would than be 00-01, 01-11, 02-12, 03-13, 04-14, 05-15 ... 0 25-1 25 etcetera instead of 00-01, 10-11, 20-21, 30-31, 40-41 etcetera.

As only the second (or last) dimension can be preserved while redimming, one could maybe argue that this is how arrays are supposed to be used to begin with. I have not seen this solution anywhere so maybe I'm overlooking something?

Answer 2

here is updated code of the redim preseve method with variabel declaration, hope @Control Freak is fine with it:)

Option explicit
'redim preserve both dimensions for a multidimension array *ONLY
Public Function ReDimPreserve(aArrayToPreserve As Variant, nNewFirstUBound As Variant, nNewLastUBound As Variant) As Variant
    Dim nFirst As Long
    Dim nLast As Long
    Dim nOldFirstUBound As Long
    Dim nOldLastUBound As Long

    ReDimPreserve = False
    'check if its in array first
    If IsArray(aArrayToPreserve) Then
        'create new array
        ReDim aPreservedArray(nNewFirstUBound, nNewLastUBound)
        'get old lBound/uBound
        nOldFirstUBound = UBound(aArrayToPreserve, 1)
        nOldLastUBound = UBound(aArrayToPreserve, 2)
        'loop through first
        For nFirst = LBound(aArrayToPreserve, 1) To nNewFirstUBound
            For nLast = LBound(aArrayToPreserve, 2) To nNewLastUBound
                'if its in range, then append to new array the same way
                If nOldFirstUBound >= nFirst And nOldLastUBound >= nLast Then
                    aPreservedArray(nFirst, nLast) = aArrayToPreserve(nFirst, nLast)
                End If
            Next
        Next
        'return the array redimmed
        If IsArray(aPreservedArray) Then ReDimPreserve = aPreservedArray
    End If
End Function

Answer 3

You could do this array(0)= array(0,1,2,3).

Sub add_new(data_array() As Variant, new_data() As Variant)
    Dim ar2() As Variant, fl As Integer
    If Not (isEmpty(data_array)) = True Then
        fl = 0
    Else
        fl = UBound(data_array) + 1
    End If
    ReDim Preserve data_array(fl)
    data_array(fl) = new_data
End Sub

Sub demo()
    Dim dt() As Variant, nw(0, 1) As Variant
    nw(0, 0) = "Hi"
    nw(0, 1) = "Bye"
    Call add_new(dt, nw)
    nw(0, 0) = "Good"
    nw(0, 1) = "Bad"
    Call add_new(dt, nw)
End Sub