Declare collection at runtime

Collections are compiled so you can create them at run-time. If you are using collections to store regular data (integer, date, string, ...), you can use disconnected ADO Recordset instead of collection. Recordsets can exists without a database and you can add them at run-time.

There is no way that you are going to get something like this. You could create an array of collections so that you could reference an element in a collection using something like:

aryCollections(arrayElement)(CollectionElement).Property = "Hello"

Hi Tim,

Thank you for your suggestion.

Could you please give me and example on how to do this.

Thanks

Hi Tim,

Thank you for your suggestion.

Could you please give me and example on how to do this.

Thanks

Since a collection can hold all types, it can also handle other collections, so:

'A collection to hold the collections
dim myCollectionOfCollections as new collection

'The member to add
dim myCollectionMember as Collection
....


'Adding a collection
s="Name"
set myCollectionMember = new collection
myCollectionMember.add "Value", "Key"
myCollectionOfCollections.add myCollectionMember,s


'Dereferencing a collection
v=myCollectionOfCollections.Item("Name").Item("Key") 'v is now "value"


regards, holli

Hi Holli

Thanks for the help..


That all works

however I can't seem to easly add an item to the collection that is within the collection..

I've tried

myCollectionOfCollections.Item("Name").Item("Key") = newvalue

Actually, what I really need to know is how to add an element to the collection within the collection

thanks..