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

Not my code, but I think it's pretty nicely written. It allows to check by the key as well as by the Object element itself and handles both the On Error method and iterating through all Collection elements.

https://danwagner.co/how-to-check-if-a-collection-contains-an-object/

I'll not copy the full explanation since it is available on the linked page. Solution itself copied in case the page eventually becomes unavailable in the future.

The doubt I have about the code is the overusage of GoTo in the first If block but that's easy to fix for anyone so I'm leaving the original code as it is.

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'INPUT       : Kollection, the collection we would like to examine
'            : (Optional) Key, the Key we want to find in the collection
'            : (Optional) Item, the Item we want to find in the collection
'OUTPUT      : True if Key or Item is found, False if not
'SPECIAL CASE: If both Key and Item are missing, return False
Option Explicit
Public Function CollectionContains(Kollection As Collection, Optional Key As Variant, Optional Item As Variant) As Boolean
    Dim strKey As String
    Dim var As Variant

    'First, investigate assuming a Key was provided
    If Not IsMissing(Key) Then

        strKey = CStr(Key)

        'Handling errors is the strategy here
        On Error Resume Next
            CollectionContains = True
            var = Kollection(strKey) '<~ this is where our (potential) error will occur
            If Err.Number = 91 Then GoTo CheckForObject
            If Err.Number = 5 Then GoTo NotFound
        On Error GoTo 0
        Exit Function

CheckForObject:
        If IsObject(Kollection(strKey)) Then
            CollectionContains = True
            On Error GoTo 0
            Exit Function
        End If

NotFound:
        CollectionContains = False
        On Error GoTo 0
        Exit Function

    'If the Item was provided but the Key was not, then...
    ElseIf Not IsMissing(Item) Then

        CollectionContains = False '<~ assume that we will not find the item

        'We have to loop through the collection and check each item against the passed-in Item
        For Each var In Kollection
            If var = Item Then
                CollectionContains = True
                Exit Function
            End If
        Next var

    'Otherwise, no Key OR Item was provided, so we default to False
    Else
        CollectionContains = False
    End If

End Function