Paul Dupuis wrote: > For strange legacy application reasons, when lines get added to the > set of fields (a frequency action by users - sometimes adding hundreds > of lines a day), the data has to be repackaged into this tab delimited > structure in a single variable to run some procedures on. > > So a user driven action of: > > 1) Add a line (or a few) to the fields > 2) repackage data and run a few procedures > 3) User repeats starting at step 1 > > Can become very slow as the number of lines in the fields gets large > - as you all have noted!
I'd just bite the bullet and replace those columnar fields with one delimited field.
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