HOLY COW, BATMAN!!!

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Nelson wrote:

> A HUGE Thank You to Phil Davis and Richard Gaskin for your response to "Not
> Shy..."
> 
> Richard - I took your code, pretty much un-altered, added a progress bar to
> the page, and 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.
> 
> I think I'll be headed over to the Revolution site now and paying my money
> to become a Platinum supporter or something.  I think this is going to work
> out well!

Glad that worked out.  Tweak the increment used for the progress bar so 
it updates less frequently and you'll see it get even faster. :)

> Okay, so has anybody got any pointers for existing code someone has used to
> dispose of HTML from a web page?

If all you want to do is strip HTML tags and get the text, you can use this:

    set the htmlText of fld 1 to tSomeHtml
    put the text of fld 1 into tSomePlainText

Another speed note:  if the field you use to convert the htmlText is on 
a card that isn't open (such as another card in the same stack or in a 
substack that's closed but that's part of your mainstack's file so it's 
in memory anyway) you'll find that getting and setting any text propery 
(text, htmlText, or rtfText) of the field is many times faster than 
doing the same action on a field on the current card.

I asked Tuviah about this, and he was kind enough to explain that fields 
on open cards require a fair amount of overhead to set up, even when 
their hidden, but fields on unopened cards use a much simpler set of 
internal routines as the engine can know the field will not be 
interacted with.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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