is it possbile to create an collection of arrays in vba? - arrays

Question

first of all, i'd like to say, i've sarched thorugh the net, but i haven't run into such a thing. i've seen collection of collections, or array of arrays, but not a collection of array.
what i want to do is, to collect ID's in collections for each District. Finally, i will join the values in the collections with Join function and ";" as delimiter, and then print them in a range of 4 column as a lookup list, for each class. For example;
Class2(0) will include 54020 and 30734, class2(1) will include 58618, class1(4) will include none, class3(7) will include 35516,34781 and 56874, and so on.
i want to loop through column C and put a select case statment to check the class and then assign the values to collections
Sub dict_coll()
Dim class1() As New Collection
Dim class2() As New Collection
Dim class3() As New Collection
Dim class4() As New Collection
Dim dict As New Scripting.Dictionary
Set dRange = range(range("a2"), range("a2").End(xlDown))
i = 0
For Each d In dRange
If Not dict.Exists(d.Value) Then
dict.Add key:=d.Value, item:=i
i = i + 1
End If
Next d
Set cRange = range(range("c2"), range("c2").End(xlDown))
For Each c In cRange
Select Case c.Value
Case "class1"
class1(dict(c.offset(0,-2).value)).Add c.Offset(0, 1).Value 'fails here
Case "class2"
class2(dict(c.offset(0,-2).value)).Add c.Offset(0, 1).Value 'fails here
Case "class3"
class3(dict(c.offset(0,-2).value)).Add c.Offset(0, 1).Value 'fails here
Case Else
class4(dict(c.offset(0,-2).value)).Add c.Offset(0, 1).Value 'fails here
End Select
Next c
End Sub
and what i want to see is as foloowing:
is there any easier and proper way of what i wanna do? any help wil be appreciated.
thanks

Answer 1

I didnt see that sb variable defined in your code.
Anyway, for me I see a case of straightforward arrays: There is fixed dimension of classes so it good enough for me. Furthermore, you can print back to worksheet so easily.
Public Sub test()
Const strPrefix = "class"
Dim districtRange As Range, outputRange As Range, r As Range
Dim arr() As String
Dim i As Long, j As Long, x As Long, y As Long
Dim district As String, str As String, idVal As String
Dim arr2 As Variant
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
ReDim arr(1 To 5, 1 To 1)
arr(1, 1) = "District"
arr(2, 1) = "Class 1"
arr(3, 1) = "Class 2"
arr(4, 1) = "Class 3"
arr(5, 1) = "Class 4"
Set districtRange = Range(Range("A2"), Range("C2").End(xlDown))
arr2 = districtRange.Value
For x = LBound(arr2, 1) To UBound(arr2, 1)
district = arr2(x, 1)
i = Val(Mid(arr2(x, 3), Len(strPrefix) + 1))
idVal = arr2(x, 2)
j = inArray(arr, district, 1) 'returns -1 if not found
If j >= 0 Then
arr(i + 1, j) = IIf(arr(i + 1, j) = "", idVal, arr(i + 1, j) & ";" & idVal)
Else
ReDim Preserve arr(1 To 5, 1 To UBound(arr, 2) + 1)
arr(1, UBound(arr, 2)) = district
arr(i + 1, UBound(arr, 2)) = idVal
End If
Next x
Set outputRange = Range("E1")
outputRange.Resize(UBound(arr, 2), UBound(arr, 1)).Value = Application.Transpose(arr)
outputRange.Sort Key1:=Range("E1"), Header:=xlYes, Order1:=xlAscending
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Public Function inArray(arr As Variant, k As String, Optional rowNum As Long, Optional colNum As Long) As Long
Dim i As Long, j As Long
inArray = -1
If rowNum Then
For i = LBound(arr, 2) To UBound(arr, 2)
If arr(rowNum, i) = k Then
inArray = i
Exit Function
End If
Next i
Else
For i = LBound(arr, 1) To UBound(arr, 1)
If arr(i, colNum) = k Then
inArray = i
Exit Function
End If
Next i
End If
End Function

Answer 2

by the way, i've found another solution, usinf both dictionary and 3-dimension array.
Sub test()
Dim Blg As New Scripting.Dictionary
Dim Sgm As New Scripting.Dictionary
Dim Siciller() As String
ReDim Siciller(0 To 23, 0 To 3, 0 To 5)
Set alanBolge = range(range("a2"), range("a2").End(xlDown))
Set alanSegment = range(range("c2"), range("c2").End(xlDown))
i = 0
For Each d In alanBolge
If Not Blg.Exists(d.Value) Then
Blg.Add Key:=d.Value, item:=i
i = i + 1
End If
Next d
k = 0
For Each d In alanSegment
If Not Sgm.Exists(d.Value) Then
Sgm.Add Key:=d.Value, item:=k
k = k + 1
End If
Next d
'data reading
For Each d In alanBolge
Siciller(Blg(d.Value), Sgm(d.Offset(0, 2).Value), dolusay(Siciller, Blg(d.Value), Sgm(d.Offset(0, 2).Value)) + 1) = d.Offset(0, 1).Value
Next d
'output
For x = 1 To 4
For y = 1 To 24
Set h = Cells(1 + y, 5 + x)
h.Select
h.Value = sonucgetir(Siciller, Blg(h.Offset(0, -x).Value), Sgm(h.Offset(-y, 0).Value))
Next y
Next x
End Sub
Public Function dolusay(ByVal data As Variant, ByVal i1 As Integer, ByVal i2 As Integer) As Integer
Dim count As Integer
count = 0
For j = 0 To UBound(data, 3) - 1
If Len(data(i1, i2, j)) > 0 Then
count = count + 1
End If
Next
dolusay = count
End Function
Public Function sonucgetir(ByVal data As Variant, ByVal i1 As Integer, ByVal i2 As Integer) As String
sonucgetir = ""
For i = 0 To UBound(data, 3)
If Len(data(i1, i2, i)) > 0 Then
x = data(i1, i2, i) & ";" & x
sonucgetir = Left(x, Len(x) - 1)
End If
Next i
End Function