On Dec 8, 2006, at 2:09 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Dec 08, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Charles Yeomans wrote:
I wouldn't expect it to because of the nature of the string
concatenation in this code. Below is a version that replaces the
string concatenation with something faster. I also changed the
while loop to a do loop and replaced the evil Close methods.
EVIL close methods ?
Is there something about closing an input out output text stream
that is "evil" ?
There is no way to reopen a stream. There is no way to check whether
a stream has been closed. Setting the object reference to nil when
you're finished with it means that you don't need to check whether
it's been closed. And should you ever refactor your code so as to
pass a reference to that stream to another method, your code has a
better chance of working.
I do find it interesting you use "do until" where the original
poster and I opted for "while ..."
Just an observation as I doubt there are any performance
differences and both read equally easily
I find
do until t.EOF
to be simpler than
while not t.EOF.
It is a very minor difference, to be sure. In general I prefer using
do-loop to while-wend because in loops of any complexity I usually
check the exit condition in the loop.
Charles Yeomans
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