Passing an array to OpenArgs

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Is there any way to pass an array as the OpenArg argument when opening a form? I want to pass several opening arguments, and it would be eaier to pass them in an array than to parse them out using a specific character as a separator (which is what I’m doing at the moment). I could use the same process to take the values in an array, create a string and send them to OpenArgs, then parse them back into an array on opening the form, but there doesn’t seem to be much point in the context I’m currently using.

Thanks.

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OpenArgs is defined as a string so I think you are stuck with what you have now.
But it would be interesting if someone knows of a way around this.

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John is completely correct in that OpenArgs is a string. You might want to consider making the array public and then passing information via the OpenArgs to tell the form to go look at the public array. Might be lots easier than creating the string, then parsing it again on the other side. Just a thought.

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Sorry, John and Larry – I completely missed your postings, but appreciate your response.

At least I know I hadn’t missed something obvious, but agree that the best option might be to have an array as a global variable, so will give that a go.

Thanks for your feedback.

Cheers, Alison

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I do this a lot. Split and Join are your friends.
Join takes an array and creates a string with a certain delimter between each item. Split does the reverse.
Consider your data when deciding on the delimter – space or comma are common, although I often use the colon ‘:’ as the delimiter.
It’s always good to minimise the use of global variables.
Peter

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Why didn’t I think of that? I’ve used Split and Join before, but completely managed to forget about them in this context!

I do try to limit my global variables to avoid problems with values not being cleared at the right time, so this is just what I was looking for.

Thanks, Peter.

Cheers, Alison

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