On Nov 4, 2005, at 2:23 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
filter theData with "*word*"
You could probably get just the lines with "word" in the second item
by doing something like this:
filter theData with "*" & tab & "*word*" & tab & "*" & \
tab & "*" & tab & "*" & tab & "*" & tab & "*" & tab & "*"
If memory serves though, both of these end up slower than the repeat
for each method, surprisingly. Just tested: on 5000 lines of data, this:
on mouseUp
put fld 1 into x
set the itemdelimiter to tab
put ticks() into t
repeat 20
put x into y
put empty into z
repeat for each line L in y
if item 2 of L contains "word" then put L & cr after z
end repeat
end repeat
put ticks() - t
put char 1 to -2 of z into fld 2
end mouseUp
returns a time roughly two-thirds that of this:
on mouseUp
put fld 1 into x
put ticks() into t
repeat 20
put x into y
filter y with "*word*"
end repeat
put ticks() - t
put y into fld 2
end mouseUp
And the second solution doesn't even check afterward to see that
"word" was in the second item!
My suggested filter at the top is slower still.
Both solutions seem to scale linearly, so repeat for each is probably
the way to go regardless of the size of your data set.
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