How to find if an array contains a string

Using the code from my answer to a very similar question:

Sub DoSomething()
Dim Mainfram(4) As String
Dim cell As Excel.Range

Mainfram(0) = "apple"
Mainfram(1) = "pear"
Mainfram(2) = "orange"
Mainfram(3) = "fruit"

For Each cell In Selection
  If IsInArray(cell.Value, MainFram) Then
    Row(cell.Row).Style = "Accent1"
  End If
Next cell

End Sub

Function IsInArray(stringToBeFound As String, arr As Variant) As Boolean
  IsInArray = (UBound(Filter(arr, stringToBeFound)) > -1)
End Function

Another simple way using JOIN and INSTR

Sub Sample()
    Dim Mainfram(4) As String, strg As String
    Dim cel As Range
    Dim Delim As String

    Delim = "#"

    Mainfram(0) = "apple"
    Mainfram(1) = "pear"
    Mainfram(2) = "orange"
    Mainfram(3) = "fruit"

    strg = Join(Mainfram, Delim)
    strg = Delim & strg

    For Each cel In Selection
        If InStr(1, strg, Delim & cel.Value & Delim, vbTextCompare) Then _
        Rows(cel.Row).Style = "Accent1"
    Next cel
End Sub

I'm afraid I don't think there's a shortcut to do this - if only someone would write a linq wrapper for VB6!

You could write a function that does it by looping through the array and checking each entry - I don't think you'll get cleaner than that.

There's an example article that provides some details here: http://www.vb6.us/tutorials/searching-arrays-visual-basic-6


Use the Filter() method as shown here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/language/reference/user-interface-help/filter-function