Save Method, Dictionary class

Description

Save all dictionary data to a file.

Syntax

Dictionary.Save (FileName as String, [SaveEmpty as Boolean = False], [Pattern as String = Empty])

Where	Type	Optional	Default	Description
FileName	String			Name of the file to store dictionary values
SaveEmpty	Boolean	yes	False	Save also empty and unknown values
Pattern	String	yes	Empty	A Regular Expression string search pattern for selecting keys to save to a file.

Remarks

This method saves only string and numeric values of the dictionary members. Other values (arrays, objects ..) are stored only as a string, if it is possible to convert them to a string. Next table shows all variant types which can be stored to the file.

OLE type	VBA type
VT_EMPTY	Empty
VT_NULL	Null
VT_UNKNOWN	-
VT_VOID	-
VT_I2	Integer
VT_UI2	-
VT_BOOL	Boolean
VT_R4	-
VT_I4	Long
VT_UI4	-
VT_INT	-
VT_UINT	-
VT_HRESULT	-
VT_ERROR	-
VT_I8	-
VT_UI8	-
VT_R8	-
VT_CY	Currency
VT_DATE	Date
VT_I1	-
VT_UI1	Byte
VT_BSTR	String

Examples

Store all dictionary data to a file

Set o = CreateObject("multi.Dictionary")


'Add some data to the dictionary
o.Add "vbNullString", vbNullString
o.Add "dbl", CDbl(10)
o.Add "sng", CSng(15)
o.Add "array", Array(1)
o.Add "currency", CCur(11)
o.Add "byte", CByte(12)
o.Add "int", CInt(13)
o.Add "lng", CLng(14)
o.Add "string", "Some text"
o.Add "bool", True

o.Add "empty", empty
o.Add "null", null


'Save the dictionary to a file
o.Save "F:\aa.dic", False

'remove all data from the dictionary
o.RemoveAll

'Load the data to the dictionary.from the file
o.Load "F:\aa.dic"

Methods of Dictionary class

Add, Connect, Exists, Load, Lock, Remove, RemoveAll, Save, UniqueKeys, Unlock

Properties of Dictionary class

CompareMode, Count, Item, Items, ItemsCount, Key, Keys, KeysCount

Multi.Dictionary

Free threaded dictionary object. Lets you work with unique/non-unique keys, any VARIANT values and connect to other dictionary in the same process.
Dictionary is a COM class specially designed as a free-threaded dictionary in Application scope of ASP/ASP.Net pages. It also works with script other engines in VB Script and JScript (ASP,ASP.Net, WSH, CHM, HTA), VB Net, Visual basic (VBA - VB 5, VB 6, Word, Excel, Access, …), C#, J#, C++, ASP, ASP.Net, Delphi and with T-SQL OLE functions - see Use ByteArray object article. You can also use the object in other programming environments with COM support, such is PowerBuilder.
Source code for Dictionary is available within distribution license, please see License page for Multi Dictionary or License page for ASP file upload and ScriptUtilities.

Multi

Multithreaded dictionary object. Lets you work with unique/non-unique keys in VBA/VBS/ASP/WHS envinronment (share application/session variables in ASP)

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