Deleting Data Woefully Slow

[Mark Wieder]

Brian-

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7:13:33 PM, you wrote:

> "repeat for each" is asking the engine to find every line ending
> in the text which would necessarily take much longer and get worse
> with scale, no?

Yes and no. "Repeat for each line" just needs to move to the next
carriage return in the variable. I don't claim to be as smart as Scott
Raney, but if I were writing the routine I'd do a seek to the next cr,
then store the pointer for use in the next iteration. That way the
speed shouldn't be data-dependent.

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-Mark Wieder
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