On 07-Sep-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your code makes less assumptions that Joel's -- yours is sorting on > the first four characters of a line. That's should be in the format > "b999" (b=space 9=digit) but your code will work if it isn't
I made the assumption that it'd either be space + 3 digits or 3 digits + space - but I should've included a trim just to be sure in case there was the occasional leading space missing. The important thing though is that Louis has a good few routines to tweek now. He could change the format of the code to anything he wished and easily modify these to suit. As to the degradation - I wouldn't know what causes that. I've detected garbage collection with previous speed tests, but never a general slowdown over time. -- Carl Read -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
