Dim myarray(2) as Variant
myarray(0)="3"
myarray(1)="4"
myarray(2)="5"
myarray(3)="9"
I want it to become
myarray(0)=3
myarray(1)=4
myarray(2)=5
myarray(3)=9
What there any way to make it with no loops, just in 1 line? This is for Excel 2010.
I want something like this, but it doesn't work:
intArray = Array.ConvertAll(stringArray , Function(str) Int32.Parse(str))
Looping through the array and converting the values one-by-one is fast enough. Here's a snippet of code to show how fast a conversion loop is relative to performing your cell I/O:
Private Const I_MAX = 10000
Private Const J_MAX = 200
Private Declare Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32.dll" () As Long
Sub ticktest()
Dim ticks As Long, i As Long, j As Long
Dim v() As Variant
Dim a() As Long 'VBA integers are internally stored as longs
Dim r As Range
Set r = [A1].Resize(I_MAX, J_MAX)
ReDim a(1 To I_MAX, 1 To J_MAX)
ticks = GetTickCount
v = r
Debug.Print "Read from range: " & GetTickCount - ticks
Debug.Print "Type of values in v(): " & TypeName(v(1, 1))
ticks = GetTickCount
For i = 1 To I_MAX
For j = 1 To J_MAX
a(i, j) = v(i, j)
Next j
Next i
Debug.Print "Copy with cast to Long: " & GetTickCount - ticks
ticks = GetTickCount
For i = 1 To I_MAX
For j = 1 To J_MAX
v(i, j) = CLng(v(i, j))
Next j
Next i
Debug.Print "In-place cast to Variant/Long: " & GetTickCount - ticks
ticks = GetTickCount
r = a
Debug.Print "Write from long array: " & GetTickCount - ticks
ticks = GetTickCount
r = v
Debug.Print "Write from variant array: " & GetTickCount - ticks
For i = 1 To I_MAX
For j = 1 To J_MAX
v(i, j) = CStr(v(i, j))
Next j
Next i
r = v
End Sub
With these values for I_MAX and J_MAX we get a 2,000,000–entry array, where reading from and writing to the worksheet is about 4x slower than converting each entry from a Variant/String to a Long:
Read from range: 749
Type of values in v(): String
Copy with cast to Long: 546
In-place cast to Variant/Long: 842
Write from long array: 921
Write from variant array: 1248
Read from range: 749
Type of values in v(): String
Copy with cast to Long: 546
In-place cast to Variant/Long: 827
Write from long array: 905
Write from variant array: 1248
Read from range: 749
Type of values in v(): String
Copy with cast to Long: 531
In-place cast to Variant/Long: 826
Write from long array: 905
Write from variant array: 1279
So there's no real need to avoid loops, with one caveat: If you do the cell I/O in a loop, performance becomes abysmal. Here, for example, a loop of r(i, j) = v(i, j) takes a full 100 seconds (that's 100,000 ticks, or 2,000x the conversion loop time) to complete.
cInt()function... By the way, why "without loops"?Dim x as integer: x = cInt(myarray(0)) * 5XLLfunctions).