[AccessD] Treat string as array

Yea, but Gustav's solution (to my actual question) was precisely what I
needed. 


John W. Colby
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Four days later trailing behind..
Tested out Gustav's painful exercise... learned something new

Then had to revisit the split... 
As John says without a delimiter, the Split function doesn't do much.

If Delimeter is omitted " " (space) is assumed.
If Delimeter is provided as "" (zero length string) the whole expression is
returned....

>From the VBA Help :
Split(expression[, delimiter[, limit[, compare]]])

The Split function syntax has these named arguments:

Part Description
expression Required. String expression containing substrings and delimiters.
If expression is a zero-length string(""), Split returns an empty array,
that is, an array with no elements and no data. 
delimiter Optional. String character used to identify substring limits. If
omitted, the space character (" ") is assumed to be the delimiter. If
delimiter is a zero-length string, a single-element array containing the
entire expression string is returned. 
limit Optional. Number of substrings to be returned; -1 indicates that all
substrings are returned. 
compare Optional. Numeric value indicating the kind of comparison to use
when evaluating substrings. See Settings section for values. 

borge


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>Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:00:28 -0400
>From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Treat string as array
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>Split only works when the string contains "words" or
delimited strings.  It
>does nothing if it is all one big string of characters. 
>
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>John W. Colby
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>...Split(<string>)
>...works in 2k+
>...hth
>
>William
>
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>
>>A for next iterator.
>>
>> Dim varChar as variant
>> For each varChar in arrSomeStr
>> Do something with varChar
>> Next varChar
>>
>> Much cleaner than
>>
>> Dim IntPtr
>> Dim varChar as variant
>> for intPtr <=len(strSomeStr)
>> varChar = mid(strsomestr,intprt,1)
>> So something with VarChar
>> next intprt
>>
>> They both work but...
>>
>> Strings are just pointers to an memory location on the
heap.  Turning a
>> string into an array of characters SHOULD be a function
call, optimized in
>> assembler to be blindingly fast.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> Colby Consulting
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf
Of Rocky Smolin at
>> Beach Access Software
>> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:15 PM
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>>
>>
>> What do you need that you don't get from MID?
>>
>> Rocky
>>
>>>
>>> How can I turn a string into an array?  I need to
iterate through the
>>> characters of a string.
>>>
>>> For each char in str
>>>         dosomething char
>>> Next char
>>>
>>> John W. Colby
>>> Colby Consulting
>>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>>
>>>
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