Divide Large Data Blob?

[Rick Harrison]

Hi Richmond,

An interesting approach.  I’ll give it try

Thanks!

Rick

> On May 16, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Richmond via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Well one of the things you could do is this:
> 
> slightly pseudo
> 
> 1 put the number of chars in MyDATA into MyNUM
> 2 put MyNUM / 3 into SLICER
> 3 put chars 1-SLICER of MyDATA into firstTHIRD
> 4 put chars SLICER-(SLICER * 2) into secondTHIRD
> 5 put chars (SLICER * 2)-(SLICER*3) into thirdTHIRD
> 
> at which point you can perform you search inwith secondTHIRD.
> 
> Unless you want to recombine all those bits having performed some sort of operation on secondThird
> lines 3 and 5 are a waste of time.
> 
> Best, Richmond.