I thought about that issue but discounted it because I saw exampls on
the web like evaluate("sin(45)") which I considered morally
equivalent.
I guess not. So what do you think adding the ROW(), here is doing
exactly? It does work for me too.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
> Heck,
> IF(ROW(),ROUND(range))
> works.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Asa Rossoff
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:13 AM
> To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
>
> Just got a post on the other forum that said (to his recollection) if you
> Evaluate a function that doesn't expect an array argument, you have to
> pursuade Evaluate to evaluate it as an array formula, such as with INDEX as
> I first did, or this other suggested alternative:
> IF(ROW(range),ROUND(range))
>
> I just tested that one and it worked fine. Should be more efficient than
> the double transpose.
>
> If that works, I'm a little surprised that including an array constant in
> the expression doesn't in itself work. Something I had tried.
>
> Asa
>
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> Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
>
> Well Holmes you've done it again. Funny I tried to use round on a
> range in the worksheet too I could not get it to work.
> Putting the round into a vacant cell of course would not work and I
> could not figure out how to have it operate on
> the existing cells in place.
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
>> - I tried the formula on a worksheet range do double check it correctly
>> returned the desired array. it did.
>> - I assumed Excel had some kind of special handling of the formula given
>> that caused it to just return one element from the array...
>> - I tried to modify the formula to see if it avoided the special
> handling...
>> - I tried making the formula a more complex expression, like:
>> round(range,2)
>> +round(range,2)
>> round(range,2)*1
>> round(range*1,2)
>> int(range*100+0.5)/100
>> - with no luck, I tried for an expression that can return part of an array
>> index(round(range,2),,1)
>> - YAY. Ohh, more than one column needed :(
>> - I made the leap to an expression that uses function(s) to simply return
>> the same array it is given
>> offset(round(range,2),,)
>> - no, no, offset only works on ranges, not arrays...
>> transpose(transpose( ....
>>
>> Best answer I can come up with :)
>> Asa
>>
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>> On Behalf Of Domain Admin
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>> To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
>>
>> Just curious how you ever even thought of trying the double transpose.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
>>>> Whatever would make you think of it that being the case?
>>> Sorry, makes me think of what being the case?
>>>
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>>> Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
>>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
>>>
>>> Whatever would make you think of it that being the case?
>>>
>>> So if redim preserve will only let you extend the column value which
>>> I do not get as that is almost never what anyone would want, can you
>>> transpose the array, do the redim, then transpose back?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
>>>> rounding a range results in an array. Evaluate evaluates array formulas
>>> and
>>>> returns array results. So, the fact that it didn't with the simple
> ROUND
>>>> formula is strange. transpose switches rows for columns, and a second
>>>> transpose switches them back. So you get the original array. No idea
>> why
>>>> this was needed..
>>>>
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>>>> On Behalf Of Domain Admin
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>>>> Subject: Re: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
>>>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
>>>>
>>>> Ok that does appear to work, but I don't get it. How does nested
>>>> transposes function
>>>> to make this work correctly? It would appear to the novice that all
>>>> you did was transpose
>>>> it then transpose it back then whatever...
>>>>
>>>> Is transposing an array the answer to my other new post about redim
>>>> preserve?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Asa Rossoff <a...@lovetour.info> wrote:
>>>>> To retrieve a multi-column array I resorted to
>>>>> "transpose(transpose(round(a1:b10,2)))" form.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Asa Rossoff [mailto:a...@lovetour.info]
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:18 PM
>>>>> To: 'excel-macros@googlegroups.com'
>>>>> Subject: RE: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
>>>>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Howard,
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems like an Excel bug.. Sorry for not testing the suggestion.
>> Evaluate
>>>>> may not be fully documented for a reason. However, it is a great
> useful
>>>>> function, just if you aren't getting the result you expect, you may
> have
>>>> to
>>>>> look for a workaround. I just posted a query in a developers forum
> with
>>>>> aomse big hitters to see if I can get an explanation for what you're
>>>> seeing,
>>>>> but in the meantime, here is a workaround.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. What you've seen with your use of Evaluate is evaluate
>> returning
>>>>> only a single value -- the first value in the array, rather than the
>>> whole
>>>>> array as Evaluate usually does.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. The INDEX function can be use to extract a reference to any
>>>>> position in an array, or a whole row or column from an array.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Here is a modification of your statement that works in my test
>>> by
>>>>> using index to specify to return the first column from the array (which
>>> of
>>>>> course is the whole array in this case):
>>>>>
>>>>> tmprange.Value2 = .Evaluate("index(round(" & tmprange.Address &
>>> ",2),,1)")
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I used Value2 since it's usually faster, but you can use Value if you
>>>>> prefer. INDEX is the relevant change.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Asa
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
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>>>>> On Behalf Of tangledweb
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 2:28 PM
>>>>> To: excel-macros@googlegroups.com
>>>>> Subject: $$Excel-Macros$$ Argh. Previously posted evaluate function
>>>>> replacing loop has unnoticed major error
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I used the evaluate function below to replace the commented out loop
>>>> portion
>>>>> for better performance in rounding off all the cells in a range.
>>>>>
>>>>> It was certainly fast and it performed the round function correctly but
>>> it
>>>>> also replaced every single cell in the range with the value of the
> first
>>>>>
>>>>> cell (ok you can laugh now). Any idea what is wrong with it? Kind of
>>>> hard
>>>>> to debug a single line of code.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> With Sheets(RawData)
>>>>> Set tmprange = .Range(.Cells(2, 3), .Cells(stoprawdata, 7))
>>>>> tmprange.Value = .Evaluate("round(" & tmprange.Address & ",2)")
>>>> 'use
>>>>> evaluate instead of code below
>>>>> ' For Each onecell In tmprange
>>>>> ' onecell.Value = WorksheetFunction.Round(onecell, 2)
>>>>> ' Next onecell
>>>>> End With
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