Hi Larry,
If you want to do a one-time search, possible invoked by a user action,
3000 lines is nothing. Don't bother about speed and just use the most
convenient way to search.
If you want to search repeatedly without user interactions between the
searches, speed may be important. In that case, a repeat for each loop
may be surprisingly fast. If you just want to find relevant lines and
dispose of irrelevant lines, the filter command will probably be what
you need, especially with its recently introduced new features.
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On 6/17/2014 16:22, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
I have a large variable containing about 3000 lines of data - each line about
100 characters.
I want to search through the variable and find all the lines that contain a
specified string
Should I use (repeatedly) "lineoffset...", or should I use "repeat for each
line..." or maybe some other faster way?
Or with only 3000 lines of data, does it even matter?
TIA
Larry
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