which is faster for searching?

Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel skip at magicgate.com
Tue Jun 17 13:26:23 EDT 2014


I used the "for each line" in a recent project that evaluates 500,000 lines
and takes just a couple of seconds to complete.  It is VERY fast!

SKIP


On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:11 PM, <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:

> Thanks to Mark and jbv for the good advice.
> I ended up using the "for each line..." since that was easy and fast
> Larry
>
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> Subject: Re: which is faster for searching?
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>
>
>  Larry,
>>
>> "repeat for each line..." is definitely faster
>>
>> and
>>
>>   repeat for each line j in myVar
>>      if j contains myText then
>>      end if
>>   end repeat
>>
>> should be pretty fast.
>>
>> jbv
>>
>>
>>  I have a large variable containing about 3000 lines of data - each line
>>> about 100 characters.
>>>
>>> I want to search through the variable and find all the lines that contain
>>> a specified string
>>>
>>> Should I use (repeatedly) "lineoffset...", or should I use "repeat for
>>> each line..."  or maybe some other faster way?
>>>
>>> Or with only 3000 lines of data, does it even matter?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> Larry
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