HOLY COW, BATMAN!!!

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

No turning back now... ;-)

just fyi, most of us rev users would consider 25 seconds
  to process 140 lines of text as very slow...

Of course I never use progress bars. I've processed 2meg files of raw 
text mailing lists
(loaded into a variable of  course -- close to 20M lines) doing similar 
"clean ups"
of empty lines and other garbage... in under 5 seconds.

And, yes, several of us  also fell out of our chairs the first time we 
saw this.

  I wonder if the replace (cr& cr) with cr would be even faster?

I'm interested because I'm about to embark on a major text re-purposing 
job here... where I will be loaded a series of  files one after another 
and then executing the code and writing out the data again to the same 
file (copies of originals)


On Jun 10, 2004, at 4:57 AM, Bob Nelson wrote:

>  executed the same job on the same 140k lines of text.  25
> seconds.  Total.  Needless to say, I nearly fell out of my chair, onto 
> the
> floor, in the throes of ecstasy.