David Adams: > I'm checking for the simplest, least difficult default as that should work in > the vast majority of cases.
Here are my two Eurocents: it does not matter how you collect the data, but concatenating the text in memory vs. writing to a file makes a HUGE difference when you have lots of records. I have a method in my toolbox that writes out a selection or a whole table into a file. Looping through the records and appending each record to a file. Works great. Then I did the same but instead of writing to a file, I appended to a textvariable. Works well for small amounts of data but is unusable for more than about 20000 records as it slows down ever more. (I am lazy and did not do any pre-sizing, chunking, whatever.) So if you want to export the data anyway and look for the simplest way, then just loop through the data and write into a file. Greetings from Germany, Bernd Fröhlich ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
