Cast variant array to specific type array

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I am a bit stumped with the syntax for this, can anyone give me some clues?

I have a Dictionary full of objects of the same type, I want to write a method that returns an array of that specific type by somehow casting Dictionary.Values(). I am hoping that the answer is not to have to Dim an array of my specific type and populate it by iteration but I can obviously do that if there is no better way.

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I think there is no other way to do it.

dim myClassArray() as myClass for each value as Variant in myDict.Values myClassArray.append value next

3

Perhaps you can try to check if you can avoid to have a such array and just cast values when they are needed.
Or file a feature request for the ability to cast arrays.

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Thanks Massimo, I found nothing in the language reference, a few unhelpful mentions in Google searched and so I had a feeling that would be the answer but I wanted to make sure that I hadn’t missed some special trick. I can’t really avoid having the array as I am coding some ‘typesafe’ collections based on sub classed dictionaries and each collection needs a ToArray() method for iteration using ‘for each’ - I have done it as you have suggested.