This array is fixed or temporarily locked - vba

Question

I am using split function and assigning the value in a variable and running the code in loop after few iterations its giving an error of "This array is fixed or temporarily locked (Visual Basic)"..
e.g; here value of movies_cat1 read from excel is in form of this------
"Movies->List All Movies , Movies->World Cinema->Asia , Movies->Movies by Language->Sinhalese , Movies->Drama"
For crow = 1 To 100
Value = Worksheets("Movies_categories").Range("A" & crow).Value
cat_final = Worksheets("Movies_categories").Range("B" & crow).Value
If Value = "y" Or Value = "Y" Then
'Loop for reading the data from tabsheet- Movies
For crowss = 5 To 3000
movies_cat1 = Worksheets("Movies").Range("B" & crowss).Value
movies_language = Worksheets("Movies").Range("C" & crowss).Value
If movies_language = "English" Then
Temp = Split(movies_cat, ",") 'run time Error:10 occurs here..
For Each boken_c In Temp
flag = 0
boken_c = Trim(boken_c)
If RTrim(LTrim(boken_c)) = LTrim(RTrim(cat_final)) Then
flag = 1
GoTo Line4:
End If
Next boken_c
End If
Next crowss
End If
Line4: Next crow
Error occurs at this statement: Temp = Split(movies_cat, ","), it says that the array is fixed or temporarily locked, because i think initially its taking 'temp' as a variable, but while returning the value of split function, variable 'Temp' becomes array after completion of first loop(i.e after crow = 6,7....)

Answer 1

Your line4 label is outside the for loop on the temp variable so when you goto it leaves it locked.
You really should restructure your code to not use a goto inside the for each loop.
Maybe:
For crow = 1 To 100
Value = Worksheets("Movies_categories").Range("A" & crow).Value
cat_final = Worksheets("Movies_categories").Range("B" & crow).Value
If Value = "y" Or Value = "Y" Then
'Loop for reading the data from tabsheet- Movies
For crowss = 5 To 3000
movies_cat1 = Worksheets("Movies").Range("B" & crowss).Value
movies_language = Worksheets("Movies").Range("C" & crowss).Value
If movies_language = "English" Then
Temp = Split(movies_cat, ",") 'run time Error:10 occurs here..
For Each boken_c In Temp
flag = 0
boken_c = Trim(boken_c)
If RTrim(LTrim(boken_c)) = LTrim(RTrim(cat_final)) Then
flag = 1
**Exit For**
End If
**If flag = 1 Then Exit For**
Next boken_c
End If
**If flag = 1 Then Exit For**
Next crowss
End If
Next crow
(Note the **d lines.)

Answer 2

I had this problem too with VBA. I cannot say I am proud of how I managed to get it, but it is supplied here just in can anyone else accidentally slips up on this.
It is quite interesting to debug as the failure occurs at the call to a sub or function - not at the point of failure. Luckily, you can follow the code through to the offending line of the called routine before it reports the error.
Call Sub1(gArray(3))
debug.print gArray(3)
...
Sub Sub1(i as integer)
Redim gArray(0)
End sub
Clearly the VB RT is not going to like this as by the time the debug.print executes, the array dimension does not exist. Ok why the hell would you want to pass a globally declared array anyway? Guilty as charged.
So in the example above you get the error at the call to Sub1, but the thing causing it is the Redim in the sub.
The moral to the story is do not pass global variables as parameters to subs. Another simple fix is to declare the Sub1 slightly differently:
Sub Sub1(ByVal i as integer)
This means the i variable is copied (but not returned) by the Sub.

Answer 3

Thanks, Deanna for the answer! I have a similar message on ReDim Preserve statement at the last line in next fragment of code:
If StrComp(Mid(s, 1, lE), txtE, vbBinaryCompare) = 0 Then
For i = iMdl To 1 Step -1
With blks(i)
If .lnEnd = 0 Then ' ".lnEnd" is a member of blks(i)
.lnEnd = ln
GoTo NXT
End If
End With
Next
errBegWith = errBegWith & ln & ", "
NXT:
End If
'...
ReDim Preserve blks(iMdl)
And after extracting assignment .lnEnd = ln from inside of the With the program works fine:
If StrComp(Mid(s, 1, lE), txtE, vbBinaryCompare) = 0 Then
For i = iMdl To 1 Step -1
If blks(i).lnEnd = 0 Then
blks(i).lnEnd = ln
GoTo NXT
End If
Next
errBegWith = errBegWith & ln & ", "
NXT:
End If
'...
ReDim Preserve blks(iMdl)