Please share what you consider 'Good Programming Practices'. I've inherited thousands of programs during my decades with MV and I have some methods that I like and many that I don't. I'm interested in another programmers opinions.
In particular, I thought that EXTRACT was not taught anymore as the <> nomenclature works as well. I use the <> construct incredibly often except when I know that I am dealing with a dynamic array to parse through and it may contain 10,000's of rows. Then REMOVE is by and large the more effecient. I would not want to use REMOVE for simple data field extractions. I use REMOVE for EDI or other parsing projects. REMOVE proved incredibly faster than <> or EXTRACT with large files. That was on a D3-W2K system if you're keeping score. Thanks Mark Johnson BTW, I wrote a utility that will convert the functions EXTRACT, DELETE and REPLACE with their equivilent <> forms in any source code. I leave INSERT alone as its <> replacement is too platform specific. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevenson, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 11:13 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Universe vs. Unidata > Thanks, Drew. My bet's riding on REMOVE. > > > I hope some have found this information helpful. If I get > > the chance, I'll try to do a more thorough testing of the > > various dynamic array extraction methods (EXTRACT vs REMOVE, > > primarily) on each platform to help identifiy good > > programming practices. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
