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TitleSafely manage control arrays with missing elements
Keywordscontrol array, safe
CategoriesSoftware Engineering, Tips and Tricks, Bug Alerts, Controls
 
If you try to access a control array element that doesn't exist, Visual Basic raises an error. Unfortunately a control array doesn't give you any indication of what entries exist.

Use On Error to protect against accessing elements that do not exist.

 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim i As Integer

    ' Load some controls.
    For i = 1 To 5
        Load Text1(i)
    Next i

    ' Unload some in the middle of the list.
    Unload Text1(1)
    Unload Text1(3)

    ' Display the remaining controls' values.
    On Error Resume Next
    For i = Text1.LBound To Text1.UBound
        Text1(i).Tag = Text1(i).Tag
        If Err.Number = 0 Then
            Debug.Print i; Text1(i).Text
        End If
    Next i
    On Error GoTo 0

    ' Unload the remaining controls.
    On Error Resume Next
    For i = Text1.LBound To Text1.UBound
        Unload Text1(i)
    Next i
End Sub
 
 
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