Dave Cragg wrote
>For example, imagine you have list of data (in a variable called
>tData) that is 1000 lines long, and you have to do some processing of
>each line. The following script can turn out be very inefficient:
>
>put the number of lines of tData into tNumLines
>repeat with i = 1 to tNumLines
> ##do something to line i of tData
>end repeat
>
>The problem is that Metacard has to count out the lines until it
>finds the right one *each time* through the loop. (At least, that's
>my understanding.) So as i gets bigger, it takes longer to find the
>line on each loop, and so an exponential time increase.
I use a lot of repeat loops and have not really considered efficiency
until thi posting arrived. The approach I use is as follows
put the number of lines of tData into x
put 1 into i
repeat x
##do something to line i of tData>end repeat
add 1 to i
end repeat
Would this overcome the problem stated by Dave?
Jim Wall
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