On Jul 16, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
I tested the function below, which is much like Josh's, and it
filters more than 300 lines in 1 tick; the same code as a message
handler rather than a function takes 5 ticks; and the filter
command on the same data takes 39 ticks.
Wow, I thought that handler was fast, but never tested/compared it.
I wonder if sorting the lines by columnNum, then exiting on the first
non-matching line would be faster or slower?
function filterByColumn theData,columnNum, theSearchString
-- This function filters tab-delimited data by column
if columnNum is an integer
then
set the itemDelimiter to tab
repeat for each line thisLine in theData
if item columnNum of thisLine is theSearchString
then
put thisLine & return after filteredData
end if
end repeat
delete the last character of filteredData
return filteredData
else
return "The column number must be an integer."
end if
end filterByColumn
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