>At 8:38 AM -0500 1/9/02, Ivers, Doug E wrote: >>Thanks, Geoff! The speed of "repeat for each char..." is a valuable >>revelation for me! With this new understanding, what would be the most >>efficient code for a > >"stripChars(theText,theChars)" function? Normally, I would say "repeat with >>i = number of chars of theText down to 1" so that I can delete chars with >>out messing up the indexing. Is there a similar way to reverse the "repeat >>for each..."? If not, should I pull out the chars I want and assemble a new >>return string? > >Exactly: > >put empty into tResult >repeat for each char C in tMyString >if C is in tMyListOfAcceptableChars then >put C after tResult >end if >end repeat >--tResult is now the string you want. > >The repeat with i =... form will be much slower for large strings, >and will get slower geometrically. The repeat for each form gets >slower linearly. (both assessments are rough estimates) >
I should try and test for speed the following : replace theChars with "" in TheText Hope it goes fast ! -- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
