On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Alvin Lindstam <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Checking the length of a String requires traversing the whole string. I
> fairly common use case is checking if the String is longer or shorter than
> a given value. I might not be interested if the string is 123 456 graphemes
> long or 654 321, if all I want to know if it is longer than 50 000
> characters, but still has to calculate the full length to know if it is.
What about String.at("bob", 4) != nil would test if "bob" was greater then
or equal to 4 chars in a single pass.
John
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