Question

Is there an easy way to populate a Collection with all Values from an Array in VBA?
e.g. something like

Dim c As New Collection
Dim a(10) As Variant
...
c.AddAll a

A simple solution would be of cause to iterate over the array, but I would expect that a modern language offers such methods out of the box …

Dim c As New Collection
Dim a(10) as Variant
...
For Each item in a
  c.Add item
Next item

Thanks for any hints!

Answer 1

“modern language” is where your problem lies – VBA/VB6 aren’t really modern – neither have been advanced much for some years.

If you need to do it a lot, write a function to do the looping:

Sub AddAll(ByVal c as Collection, a as Variant)
    For Each item in a
      c.Add item
    Next item
End Sub

or if you want a new collection each time:

Function ToCollection(a as Variant) As Collection
    Dim c As New Collection
    For Each item in a
      c.Add item
    Next item
    Set ToCollection = c
End Function

and then use it:

Dim c As New Collection
Dim a(10) as Variant
...
AddAll c,a

or

Dim a(10) as Variant
Dim c as Collection
...
Set c = ToCollection(a)