VBA comparing multiple variables - vba

Question

There any way to compare multiple variables in VBA? For example:
Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Integer
Dim z As Integer
x = 99
y = 2
z = 3
I would like to return the smallest of the values.
I understand I could use select case x > y for all possible permutations but that seems unwieldy for more than 3 variables.
I have tried the worksheet function
solution = Application.WorksheetFunction.Min(x, y, z)
but that returns 2 and I would like it to return the variable name to be passed to another function.
many thanks,
Edit: My apologies if this was confusing, I am still a VBA novice. Here's my problem a little more generally:
I have a list of codes that correspond to names, many names per code. I want to loop through every name per code and count the number of instances that name appears on a list and choose the name with the LEAST occurrences. (could be 0 or could be the same as another name). obviously if there were 2 names it would be easy to do a if x>y then but I'm stumped as for comparing more than 3. Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

Use a public array rather than multiple variables. This will make it easy to iterate through them all and get the highest value, as well as reference the variable with the highest value later on:
Public myArray(0 To 2) As Integer
Public index As Integer
Public Sub calcMin()
Dim i As Integer
Dim maxValue As Integer
myArray(0) = 99
myArray(1) = 2
myArray(2) = 3
For i = 0 To UBound(myArray)
If myArray(i) < maxValue Then
maxValue = myArray(i)
index = i
End If
Next i
End Sub
Function yourFunction(valueToPass As Integer)
'your function's code here
End Function
Then pass the variable to yourFunction like so: yourFunction(myArray(index))

Answer 2

Same idea as Mike's but with an example to call a sub with the min value found:
Sub main()
Dim arrComp(2) As Integer
arrComp(0) = 99
arrComp(1) = 2
arrComp(2) = 3
'It is important to initialize the tmpVal to a value from the array
'to consider the chance where negative and positive values are used
Dim tmpVal As Integer: tmpVal = arrComp(LBound(arrComp))
Dim i As Integer, minIndex As Integer
For i = LBound(arrComp) To UBound(arrComp)
If arrComp(i) < tmpVal Then
tmpVal = arrComp(i)
minIndex = i
End If
Next i
showMinVal arrComp(minIndex)
End Sub
Sub showMinVal(MinVal As Integer)
MsgBox "The min value is " & MinVal
End Sub
Or, a workaround if you want the name associated to the value, you could define a new Type:
'Types must be declared at the top of the module
Type tVarName
varName As String
varVal As Integer
End Type
Sub main()
Dim arrComp(2) As tVarName
arrComp(0).varName = "x"
arrComp(0).varVal = 99
arrComp(1).varName = "y"
arrComp(1).varVal = 2
arrComp(2).varName = "z"
arrComp(2).varVal = 3
Dim tmpVal As Integer: tmpVal = arrComp(LBound(arrComp)).varVal
Dim i As Integer, minIndex As Integer
For i = LBound(arrComp) To UBound(arrComp)
If arrComp(i).varVal < tmpVal Then
tmpVal = arrComp(i).varVal
minIndex = i
End If
Next i
showMinVal arrComp(minIndex)
End Sub
'Sub showing min value along with the name associated to it
Sub showMinVal(MinVal As tVarName)
MsgBox "The min value is " & MinVal.varName & " = " & MinVal.varVal
End Sub