Yeah that 'splains it

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
> See if
> https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/introducing-array-formulas-in-excel-HA001087290.aspx
> makes clear how to enter an array formula that returns an array of results.
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> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
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> Well Holmes you've done it again.  Funny I tried to use round on a
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> range in the worksheet too I could not get it to work.
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> Putting the round into a vacant cell of course would not work and I
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> could not figure out how to have it operate on
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> the existing cells in place.
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> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
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>> - I tried the formula on a worksheet range do double check it correctly
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>> returned the desired array. it did.
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>> - I assumed Excel had some kind of special handling of the formula given
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>> that caused it to just return one element from the array...
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>> - I tried to modify the formula to see if it avoided the special
>> handling...
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>> - I tried making the formula a more complex expression, like:
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>>   round(range,2)
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>>   +round(range,2)
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>>   round(range,2)*1
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>>   round(range*1,2)
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>>   int(range*100+0.5)/100
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>> - with no luck, I tried for an expression that can return part of an array
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>>   index(round(range,2),,1)
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>> - YAY. Ohh, more than one column needed :(
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>> - I made the leap to an expression that uses function(s) to simply return
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>> the same array it is given
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>>   offset(round(range,2),,)
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>> - no, no, offset only works on ranges, not arrays...
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>>   transpose(transpose( ....
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>> Best answer I can come up with :)
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>> Asa
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>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
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>> Just curious how you ever even thought of trying the double transpose.
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>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
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>>>> Whatever would make you think of it that being the case?
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>>> Sorry, makes me think of what being the case?
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>>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
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>>> Whatever would make you think of it that being the case?
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>>> So if redim preserve will only let you extend the column value which
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>>> I do not get as that is almost never what anyone would want, can you
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>>> transpose the array, do the redim, then transpose back?
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>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
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>>>> rounding a range results in an array.  Evaluate evaluates array formulas
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>>> and
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>>>> returns array results.  So, the fact that it didn't with the simple
>>>> ROUND
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>>>> formula is strange.  transpose switches rows for columns, and a second
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>>>> transpose switches them back.  So you get the original array.  No idea
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>> why
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>>>> this was needed..
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>>>> Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
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>>>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
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>>>> Ok that does appear to work, but I don't get it.  How does nested
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>>>> transposes function
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>>>> to make this work correctly?  It would appear to the novice that all
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>>>> you did was transpose
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>>>> it then transpose it back then whatever...
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>>>> Is transposing an array the answer to my other new post about redim
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>>>> preserve?
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>>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
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>>>>> To retrieve a multi-column array I resorted to
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>>>>> "transpose(transpose(round(a1:b10,2)))" form.
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> From: Asa Rossoff [mailto:a...@lovetour.info]
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>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:18 PM
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>>>>> To: 'excel-macros@googlegroups.com'
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>>>>> Subject: RE: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
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>>>>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> Hi Howard,
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>>>>>
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>>>>> Seems like an Excel bug.. Sorry for not testing the suggestion.
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>> Evaluate
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>>>>> may not be fully documented for a reason.  However, it is a great
>>>>> useful
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>>>>> function, just if you aren't getting the result you expect, you may
>>>>> have
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>>>> to
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>>>>> look for a workaround.  I just posted a query in a developers forum
>>>>> with
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>>>>> aomse big hitters to see if I can get an explanation for what you're
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>>>> seeing,
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>>>>> but in the meantime, here is a workaround.
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> 1.       What you've seen with your use of Evaluate is evaluate
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>> returning
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>>>>> only a single value -- the first value in the array, rather than the
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>>> whole
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>>>>> array as Evaluate usually does.
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>>>>>
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>>>>> 2.       The INDEX function can be use to extract a reference to any
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>>>>> position in an array, or a whole row or column from an array.
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>>>>>
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>>>>> 3.       Here is a modification of your statement that works in my test
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>>> by
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>>>>> using index to specify to return the first column from the array (which
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>>> of
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>>>>> course is the whole array in this case):
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>>>>>
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>>>>> tmprange.Value2 = .Evaluate("index(round(" & tmprange.Address &
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>>> ",2),,1)")
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> I used Value2 since it's usually faster, but you can use Value if you
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>>>>> prefer.  INDEX is the relevant change.
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> Asa
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>>>>>
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>>>>> On Behalf Of tangledweb
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>>>>> To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
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>>>>> Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
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>>>>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>> I used the evaluate function below to replace the commented out loop
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>>>> portion
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>>>>> for better performance in rounding off all the cells in a range.
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>>>>>
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>>>>> It was certainly fast and it performed the round function correctly but
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>>> it
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>>>>> also replaced every single cell in the range with the value of the
>>>>> first
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>>>>>
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>>>>> cell (ok you can laugh now).  Any idea what is wrong with it?  Kind of
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>>>> hard
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>>>>> to debug a single line of code.
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>
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>>>>>     With Sheets(RawData)
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>>>>>         Set tmprange = .Range(.Cells(2, 3), .Cells(stoprawdata, 7))
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>>>>>         tmprange.Value = .Evaluate("round(" & tmprange.Address & ",2)")
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>>>> 'use
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>>>>> evaluate instead of code below
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>>>>> '        For Each onecell In tmprange
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>>>>> '            onecell.Value = WorksheetFunction.Round(onecell, 2)
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>>>>> '        Next onecell
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>>>>>     End With
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