That's a good thought Bob, LC just has to look for the first line break that way. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > Not to beat a dead horse, but when converting a large string of text to an > array, it might be somewhat faster to delete each line as you put it into > the array, and only work with the first line. Very little scan times. > > Bob > > > On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Pete wrote: > > > Thanks Alex. I managed to cobble something together to get the test > lists. > > > > > > I did try the binary search approach and it was way slower than the array > > approach as you predicted (Still much faster than the original code > Matthias > > was using though). So I'm happy with the array technique now. Someone > > posted a variation on my original code which might be slightly faster. > > > > > > Pete > > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.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
