Determining whether an object is a member of a collection in VBA

Question

How do I determine whether an object is a member of a collection in VBA?

Specifically, I need to find out whether a table definition is a member of the TableDe

Answer 1

this version works for primitive types and for classes (short test-method included)

' TODO: change this to the name of your module
Private Const sMODULE As String = "MVbaUtils"

Public Function ExistsInCollection(oCollection As Collection, sKey As String) As Boolean
    Const scSOURCE As String = "ExistsInCollection"

    Dim lErrNumber As Long
    Dim sErrDescription As String

    lErrNumber = 0
    sErrDescription = "unknown error occurred"
    Err.Clear
    On Error Resume Next
        ' note: just access the item - no need to assign it to a dummy value
        ' and this would not be so easy, because we would need different
        ' code depending on the type of object
        ' e.g.
        '   Dim vItem as Variant
        '   If VarType(oCollection.Item(sKey)) = vbObject Then
        '       Set vItem = oCollection.Item(sKey)
        '   Else
        '       vItem = oCollection.Item(sKey)
        '   End If
        oCollection.Item sKey
        lErrNumber = CLng(Err.Number)
        sErrDescription = Err.Description
    On Error GoTo 0

    If lErrNumber = 5 Then ' 5 = not in collection
        ExistsInCollection = False
    ElseIf (lErrNumber = 0) Then
        ExistsInCollection = True
    Else
        ' Re-raise error
        Err.Raise lErrNumber, mscMODULE & ":" & scSOURCE, sErrDescription
    End If
End Function

Private Sub Test_ExistsInCollection()
    Dim asTest As New Collection

    Debug.Assert Not ExistsInCollection(asTest, "")
    Debug.Assert Not ExistsInCollection(asTest, "xx")

    asTest.Add "item1", "key1"
    asTest.Add "item2", "key2"
    asTest.Add New Collection, "key3"
    asTest.Add Nothing, "key4"
    Debug.Assert ExistsInCollection(asTest, "key1")
    Debug.Assert ExistsInCollection(asTest, "key2")
    Debug.Assert ExistsInCollection(asTest, "key3")
    Debug.Assert ExistsInCollection(asTest, "key4")
    Debug.Assert Not ExistsInCollection(asTest, "abcx")

    Debug.Print "ExistsInCollection is okay"
End Sub