2009/10/7 Izkata <[email protected]> > > If all you're doing is stripping characters, I suggest 'trim - > > >> trim/with {I'm so not here} {' } > =3D=3D "Imsonothere" > > Is parse faster in this case? > > Trim is much faster than parse for your example. It is a native function. speedtest: func [][ st: now/precise loop 10000 [stripped: trim/with teststring "' "] et: now/precise print ["10000 trim/with took:" difference et st] st: now/precise strip: charset [#" " #"'"] not-strip: complement strip loop 10000 [ stripped: copy "" parse teststring [any [copy str some not-strip (insert tail stripped str) | some strip]] ] et: now/precise print ["10000 parse took:" difference et st] ]
>> speedtest 10000 trim/with took: 0:00:00.007205 10000 parse took: 0:00:00.05729 Regards Peter -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
