two dimensional arrays

[dav79]

I can't imagine how VB works with arrays. What I need is to pass first element of two dimensional array to function like this:

 function f(a() as Byte)
 ....
 end function

 dim v(10,10) as Byte

 call f(v(0))

Besides code like this doesn't work also:

 dim a(10,10) as Byte
 dim b(10) as Byte
 a(0) = b

thanks...

[Cimperiali]

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim v(10, 10) As Byte
    'f expect an array
    'byref -
    'If you want to send a dimension,
    'you have to recreate a monodimensional array:
    Dim MonoV() As Byte
    ReDim MonoV(UBound(v, 1)) 'Ubound of first dimension of "v"
    Dim Counter As Long
    For Counter = 0 To UBound(MonoV)
        MonoV(Counter) = v(0, Counter)
    Next
    Call f(MonoV)
     
    'if you want to pass only a single cell,
    'you have to create an array of one cell only:
    ReDim MonoV(0)
    MonoV(0) = v(0, 0)
    Call f(MonoV)
     
    'If you want, you can send the whole array
    '-better say: you can passs the pointer to
    'your bidimensional array:
    Call f(v)
End Sub
Function f(a() As Byte)
On Error Resume Next
    Dim dimensions As Integer
    dimensions = UBound(a, 2)
    If Err.Number <> 0 Then
        'you do not have a bidim array!
        dimensions = 1
    Else
        dimensions = 2
    End If
    Err.Clear
    On Error GoTo 0
    Select Case dimensions
        Case 1
            Debug.Print UBound(a, 1)
        Case 2
            Debug.Print UBound(a, 2)
    End Select
End Function

[dav79]

It's an interesting code, but actually not the very thing that I need. I missed to mention earlier, that values of twodimensinal array must be used later, after function's call, so I need to pass pointer to that array.
As regards to Function f(a() As Byte) , it works only with onedimensional arrays. I can't modify it and add any dimension checking procedures.
Of course, it's possible to pass onedimensional array and then copy all elemets to twodimensional, but is there eny prettiest way in VB to arrange with same kind of tasks?
Thank you very much.

[dav79]

By the way, is there any function in VB, that converts String to array of bytes?