Sorting a dictionary by key in VBA

It looks like I figured it out myself. I created the following function that appears to be doing the job:

Public Function funcSortKeysByLengthDesc(dctList As Object) As Object
    Dim arrTemp() As String
    Dim curKey As Variant
    Dim itX As Integer
    Dim itY As Integer

    'Only sort if more than one item in the dict
    If dctList.Count > 1 Then

        'Populate the array
        ReDim arrTemp(dctList.Count - 1)
        itX = 0
        For Each curKey In dctList
            arrTemp(itX) = curKey
            itX = itX + 1
        Next

        'Do the sort in the array
        For itX = 0 To (dctList.Count - 2)
            For itY = (itX + 1) To (dctList.Count - 1)
                If Len(arrTemp(itX)) < Len(arrTemp(itY)) Then
                    curKey = arrTemp(itY)
                    arrTemp(itY) = arrTemp(itX)
                    arrTemp(itX) = curKey
                End If
            Next
        Next

        'Create the new dictionary
        Set funcSortKeysByLengthDesc = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
        For itX = 0 To (dctList.Count - 1)
            funcSortKeysByLengthDesc.Add arrTemp(itX), dctList(arrTemp(itX))
        Next

    Else
        Set funcSortKeysByLengthDesc = dctList
    End If
End Function

For more info on static arrays see: https://excelmacromastery.com/excel-vba-array/#Declaring_an_Array

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