Geoff, I haven't messed with it, but does "last char" have the same performance as "char -1"?
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another way: > > if char -1 of tList is the itemdelimiter then delete char -1 of tList > > For short lists, item 1 to -1 is faster. For long lists the above gets to > be perhaps 5x faster. > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Devin Asay <devin_a...@byu.edu> wrote: > > > > > On Aug 12, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > > > > Terry- > > > > > > Sunday, August 11, 2013, 11:04:26 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > > > > >> Agreed - for practical purposes it's only 3 - although I still > > >> can't get out of the habit of deleting the trailing delimiter from a > > >> constructed list before processing it in a repeat loop. > > > > > > I do too. And for that reason, neither of us would have code that > > > would be affected by changing the way items and lines are counted. But > > > there *is* other legacy code out there that does rely on the current > > > behavior. > > > > > > You know how I get rid of trailing delimiters? > > > > put line 1 to -1 of tList into tList > > > > put item 1 to -1 of tItems into tItems > > > > Kills that dang dangling delimiter dead. > > > > Devin > > > > > > Devin Asay > > Office of Digital Humanities > > Brigham Young University > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ 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
