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>I have been frustrated for a while by the difficulty of manipulatingYou really need to stop trying to write perl code in dot net and VBA. Arrays
arrays in VBA and VB.NET -- in particular the awkwardness involved
in appending, prepending, or inserting new elements -- so to make
my life easier I wrote two functions that act something like Perl's
splice function. I wrote the VBA version first, and then a slightly
different version for VB.NET. Both versions are included here,
and they are both a little different from the Perl function, but
close enough that you should be able to make them functionally
identical without too much trouble if you happen to feel like it.
are hard to resize for a good reason, this goes down to how the hardware
works. They have the advantage of being super efficient but this comes at
the expense of some restrictions. If you want the flexibility then use the
list class. I really cannot accept at all that you are stuck using the array
because of some existing code. It will either be very easy to change the
existing code or very easy to cast the array to a list when needed (1 line
of code).
Several people here have given you good advice and you choose to ignore it.
Inserting an element in a list is one line of code but you insist on writing
pages of code to do it the wrong way. If you ask a question here you should
take the GOOD advice you are given. If you ignore it then there isn't much
point asking the question.
Michael
