Create new Array of parameter type

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Published on 2011-01-04T19:42:25Z Indexed on 2011/01/04 19:54 UTC
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I'm trying to create a function to parse out all values in a multidimensional Array with all but one dimension given. The details are not relevant, but for this function I need to return an one-dimensional Array containing values of the same type the original multidimensional Array has.

To pass any Array with any dimension to my function, I declared the type of this parameter as Array. However, how would I create a new Array of that specific type (e.g. Integer)?

Currently I have the following code:

Function GetRow(ByVal arr As Array) As Array
    Dim result As (...) 'This should be Integer() if arr contains Integers, etc.
    Return result
End Function

How do I declare the type of result to make it having the same type of values as arr? New Array is not possible as it is declared MustInherit.

Thanks a lot.

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