Mark, Nice, I'll look into that a bit further to see if it makes any difference how much data is on a line. Fortunately I'm only working with 4 - 90 chars per line.
Thanks On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Mark Wieder <[email protected]>wrote: > Kay- > > Thursday, March 25, 2010, 3:20:41 AM, you wrote: > > > If anyone thinks they can delete data faster than my Test 4 I'd sure > > appreciate some pointers :-) > > Here's what I threw together, and for smaller data sets it's roughly > twice as fast as your test 4 (1 or 2 ms vs 4 or 5 ms over 5000 lines). > But for larger data sets it starts to bog down and then comes out > twice as slow (90 ms vs 45 ms over 50000 lines). And since I'm working > with a reduced data set after the filter command, using the "delete" > line instead of the "put" line makes no difference to the overall > timing. If you know in advance that you want to delete three lines > starting with a trigger phrase, then you've got a fast algorithm > there. > > --test5 > put the millisec into tStart > put tData into tData5 > filter tData5 with "*a*" > repeat for each line tLine in tData5 > put lineoffset(tLine, tData) into tPos > if tPos is not 0 then > --delete line tPos to tPos+2 of tData > put line 1 to tPos-1 of tData & cr & line tPos+3 to -1 of tData > & cr into tData > end if > end repeat > put word 1 to -1 of tData into tData > put the millisec into tEnd > put tEnd - tStart into tTotal5 > > if (tData1 <> tData) then > answer "Error: tData1 <> tData" > breakpoint > end if > > -- > -Mark Wieder > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
