Re: is there an API for quick searching of an array?

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I didn't follow the whole thread, but maybe you could use a collection instead of an array (or use a collection
as a tester for uniqueness) and take advantage of the fact
that the key of a collection item can only be unique.

RBS

"Mike Scirocco" <mscir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7oydnZNWduKS3YHbnZ2dnUVZ_tKjnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am filling arrays of up to 25000 elements with string data, and I have to make sure each entry is unique, so as the array gets filled from element 0 to 24999 I have to check all of the previous element contants to make sure none of them match the new entry.

Is there an API for a fast array search? Right now I'm just looping through the array like this:

tryagain:
'get new data point to include in array if it's unique
newvalue = "somedata"

dim n as long
for n = lbound(mydata) to ubound(mydata)
'see if newvalue exists in array yet
if mydata(n)=newvalue then goto tryagain
next

Mike

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