I can see that if the text is in a field. When deleting the chars the remaining text must be reformatted. Try it with the text in a variable.
Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode Sent: Monday, February 03, 2020 6:48 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: J. Landman Gay Subject: Re: OMG text processing performance 6.7 - 9.5 On 2/3/20 2:19 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: > Parse1 is here always at least 30% faster than Parse2. I'm seeing the same thing, only more so. I searched for "the" in a 424K text file: parse1 = 11 ms parse2 = 111 ms The text was imported into a field using the property inspector, which I assume converted it to UTF16 automatically. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
