Not shy at all...
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
revolution at jaedworks.com
Sun Jun 6 16:49:36 EDT 2004
At 7:42 PM +0100 6/6/2004, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>I'll leave specific comments to those who know better, but doing all
>the manipulation in the same field looks inefficient - put the
>processed sections into a separate (results) field (and don't
>display it until done).
You're mostly right - it actually is much faster to do it all in
memory, that is, in a variable. Putting data into a field is a slow
operation. (Or if the dataset is too large, reading it into a
variable in chunks and processing it there will still be much more
efficient than doing it in a field.)
>From an outsider's point of view, the lack of a regular expression
>package in Revolution looks like it will make this (the real
>problem, not the simple first step) a harder problem than it need
>have been. One of the things that attracted me to Revolution was a
>statement along the lines of "text processing like you've never
>seen" - but I haven't found anything to justify that claim yet. The
>built-in tokenizing is neat, but hardly revolutionary, and the
>apparent lack of RE looks like a big missing feature. (Please tell
>me it's in there and I just missed it in the docs ....)
Just do a search for "regular expression" - it's in there.
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jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed at jaedworks.com
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