RE: [DUG]: Friday Challenge

[Leigh Wanstead]

Hi Neven,   I see you are very keen to improve your code performance from your two questions. Here is the link may help you.  http://www.optimalcode.com/.   Cheers Leigh -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 12:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Friday Challange Hi all,   Further to my enpty string question, I'm writing a lot of functions that return a set of strings joined by a separator ie 'col1, col2,...' or 'col1 = 'a' and colb = 'b'' (as you may guess these are all parts of SQL Statements)   given a function 'Itemcount' that returns the number of items and item(i) that returns the item string, and function sep what is the best form of such a function   to seed the duscussion I'll give you one of my variants   function statement: string; var   I: integer; begin   Result := '';   for I := 0 to pred(ItemCount) do     if I = 0 then Result := Item(I)     else Result := format('%s%s%s',[Result,Sep,Item(I)]) end;   Variants and explainations pls   Neven