Try either a Binary or Ternary search or a simple hash algorithm.
-----Original Message----- From: Alistair George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 October 2002 1:03 p.m. To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: To CASE or not? Hi all. I am writing a backup routine which includes or excludes bunches of files/folders. For example, during the backup process the compressor must be told which file types to exclude. My concern is that if this bunch of types is numerous that the processing/parsing could be quite resource intensive. Any suggestions to achieve this would be appreciated. My own feeling is to run with a dynamic CASE statement, but even this would seem to take a pretty big chunk of processing time given each file is parsed? Thanks, Alistair George+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
