Chocolate fish award must go to Peter. I guess the rest of us our propellors were spinning too fast to notice... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Friday Challange
> I would just like to say that only programmers could spend so much > time working on so many variants of such a minor piece of code in so > many messags without *once* noticing and fixing the typo in the > subject line <g>. > > Have a weekend... > > > Neven MacEwan wrote: > > > Dennis > > > > > > Therein lies the challange, to come up with an efficient 'Join' procedure > > > that > > > require no preknowlege of iteration count or item length > > > > > > would the format be sominthing like > > > > > > TJoinItemFunction = function(Index: integer): string; > > > TJoinOption = (joRemoveBlanks, joUnique, joCaseSensitive); > > > TJoinOptions = set of TJoinOption; > > > > > > function Join(GetItem: TJoinItemFunction ; count: integer; const Sep: > > > string, Options TJoinOptions): string; > > > > > > N > > > > > > > For any serious number of strings to format, won't the > > database be far slower executing the resulting strings anyway? > > Why not just up the db server box? > > > > Cheers, Kurt. > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > 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/ > > > > > > > cheers, > peter > > =========================================== > Peter Hyde, SPIS Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand > * TCompress/TCompLHA component sets for Delphi/Kylix/C++ > * TurboNote+: http://TurboPress.com/tbnote.htm > -- top-rated onscreen sticky notes > * Web automation for online periodicals: http://TurboPress.com > Find all the above and MORE at http://spis.co.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/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
