Richard.
Right, and I am sure you know this, but it was never particularly a speed issue,rather more a mental and organizational one, that would be even more opaque if you had, say a handful of nested delimiters instead of just two. Craig -----Original Message----- From: Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> To: use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 3:46 pm Subject: Re: problem with counting words FWIW, changing the itemdel takes only about 0.00012 ms on a relatively slow (2.16GHz) Mac, and about a third as long (0.000043 ms) on my custom Linux box (3.0 GHz). on mouseup put 100000 into n -- put the millisecs into t repeat n get 1+1 end repeat put the millisecs - t into t1 -- put the millisecs into t repeat n get 1+1 set the itemdel to "#" end repeat put the millisecs - t into t2 -- put (t2-t1)/n end mouseup If that would be fast enough for your needs, you could write a function that takes any number of item number/delimiter pairs as arguments, following the data itself: on mouseUp put 1000 into n put "aaa,bbb,ccc#ddd#eee#fff,ggg,hhh" into tSomeData -- put the millisecs into t repeat n get nDepth(tSomeData, 3, comma, 2, "#" ) end repeat put the millisecs - t into t1 put t1/n &cr& it end mouseUp function nDepth get param(1) repeat with i = 2 to paramCount() step 2 set the itemDel to param(i+1) get item param(i) of it end repeat return it end nDepth On my old Mac that takes only about 0.005 ms per call. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode