Repeats repeated

[Richard Gaskin]

Terry Vogelaar wrote:

> David Vaughan heeft op zondag, 3 nov 2002 om 22:10 het volgende
> geschreven:
> 
>>> ... like David I really cannot imagine why Richard's suggestion about
>>> using arrays would contribute anything to the speed, but I tried it
>>> and it obviously worked; it reduced my (fastest) 101 seconds to 36!
>> 
>> My problem was not in imagining it would be faster but in would be the
>> code :-), given your particular problem.
>> Would you mind showing your new solution, on or off list?
> 
> Of course:
> 
> put the number of lines of t into s
> split t by return
> repeat with f1 = 1 to s - 2
> put t[f1] into g1
> repeat with f2 = f1+1 to s - 1
> put t[f2] into g2
> repeat with f3 = f2+1 to s
> put t[f3] into g3
> put g1 & "," & g2 & "," & g3 & return after outvar
> end repeat
> end repeat
> end repeat
> 
> You see, no big changes with the first script. It only uses an array
> instead of the lines of a variable (25 secs faster) and outputs it to a
> var instead of to a field (40 secs faster).

Excellent job, Terry!  And thanks for posting that to the list -- this has
been a valuable lesson in the benefits of employing Rev's unique syntax
options.

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