Thank Dick
I will try your idea - it may need a small mod, see below. I will probably post
some timings later if people are still interested in this thread.
Mark’s method of converting to an array of lines to gain random access to the
lines has given me at least a 50-fold increase in speed in m
> On Jun 28, 2024, at 3:15 AM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I have a solution or at least a workaround
Hi, Neville. You may find a worthwhile improvement in speed if you avoid
referring to the Unicode lines by their line numbers (as in "line k of fff").
Here's a way:
functi