Yes, speed will be an issue if the data is thousands of lines. I'm usually dealing with less than a thousand iterations, and taking a half-second or so to do the job is nearly unnoticeable for the user.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:55 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Peter M. Brigham <pmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No need to change the itemdel in a loop, you can use this instead: >> >> put getItem(pList, pIndex, pDelim) into tItem >> > > Won't this be orders of magnitude slower? > > I can see the use in the general case, but Im ususally in nested loops > where performance matters when this comes up . . . _______________________________________________ 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
