Looping thru a collection....

Hi All,
I have a problem looping thru a collection. Can anyone please help me out with this......
I have this following code.....

Public mcolContacts As New Collection

Public Sub Add(CustomerID As Long, SiteName As String, ContactName As String)
Dim udtContact As ContactType
Dim key As String

With udtContact
.CustomerID = CustomerID
.SiteName = SiteName
.ContactName = ContactName
.Selected = False
End With
key = "CID:" & CustomerID
End Sub

Now I have 2 conditions
1)I want to remove the item if it already exists and add the same item with the updated value OR
2)Add a new item if it is not present in the collection.

The code for this is code is as follows
if key exists then
mcolContacts.Remove key mcolContacts.Add udtContact, key
Else
mcolContacts.Add udtContact, CStr(key) End If

I think you can update my answer to a previous post to do what you want.

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Marty
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[This message has been edited by MartinLiss (edited 02-02-2000).]

Hi Martin,
I did go thru your code before I posted this topic, but I was not able to relate that with my problem becos here I'm using a user defined datatype for the items in the collection. Can U please brief me about that has to be done with respect to the code I have given in here.

Thanks in advance.

Have you tried a regular loop through the collection? Here is a function that might work for you. You pass it the user defined type, and it returns TRUE if it is in the collection, or FALSE if not:

Code:

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Private Function ExistsInColl(udtContact As Contact) As Boolean

    Dim nCounter As Integer
   
    ExistsInColl = False
   
    For nCounter = 0 To mcolContacts.Count - 1
        If udtContact.CustomerID = mcolContacts(nCounter).CustomerID Then
            ExistsInColl = True
            Exit Function
        End If
    Next nCounter
   
End Function

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Well you learn something all the time. I worked on it a while and it turns out you can't add a udt to a collection. :( However, if you are willing to parse a string later on when to want to read the data in the collection then you can do this. :)

Code:

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Public MyCollection As New Collection

Private Sub Command1_Click()
   
    Dim intIndex As Integer
   
    ' This is just test data, and obviously you wouldn't want to
    ' hard-code the data values. I assume instead that the data would
    ' come from TextBoxes, etc. and you would only try to add/update
    ' one record at a time.
   
    If RecordExits(111, "site 1", "Marty") Then
        MsgBox "Record replaced"
    Else
        MsgBox "record added"
    End If
   
    MsgBox MyCollection.Count
   
    If RecordExits(111, "site 1", "New Name") Then
        MsgBox "Record replaced"
    Else
        MsgBox "record added"
    End If
   
    MsgBox MyCollection.Count
   
    If RecordExits(222, "site 2", "Liss") Then
        MsgBox "Record replaced"
    Else
        MsgBox "record added"
    End If
   
    MsgBox MyCollection.Count
   
    For intIndex = 1 To MyCollection.Count
      Debug.Print MyCollection.Item(intIndex)
    Next
   
End Sub
Public Function RecordExits(CustomerID As Long, SiteName As String, ContactName As String) As Boolean

    Const SEPERATOR = ";" ' Use whatever seperator that would NEVER be in your
                          ' data. You may need to validate the input beforehand
                          ' to make sure it's not present
   
    On Error Resume Next
    ' Try to add the record
    MyCollection.Add CustomerID & SEPERATOR & SiteName & SEPERATOR & ContactName, CStr(CustomerID)
    If Err = 0 Then
        ' OK, it's added
        RecordExits = False
    Else
        RecordExits = True
        ' Remove the old record
        MyCollection.Remove CStr(CustomerID)
        ' Add the updated record
        MyCollection.Add CustomerID & SEPERATOR & SiteName & SEPERATOR & ContactName, CStr(CustomerID)
    End If
   
End Function

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Marty
HASTE CUISINE
Fast French food.