Efficient Way To Check If Certain Characters Exist in Variable

[Warren Kuhl]

Jeff,

Thanks for the suggestions!  I will use the replacetext and compare the
speed with the loop and see which is quicker.

Much appreciated!

Warren

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jeff Massung <massung at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Warren Kuhl <warrenkuhl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What would be the most efficient way to check a variable and replace any
> of
> > the characters with empty if the character is not a alpha (upper or
> lower),
> > numeric (0-9) or a '-'?
> >
> > The only way I can think of doing this is a repeat loop and checking the
> > value of each character and replacing with empty if not alpha, numeric or
> > '-'.
> >
> > Any other suggestions for more efficient code?
> >
> >
> Well, it depends on what your definition of "efficient" is. If you want a
> 1-liner:
>
> put replaceText(tSource, "[^A-Za-z0-9\-]+", empty) into tDest
>
> That's using regular expression. But that might be a lot less performance
> (speed-wise) than doing it yourself in a loop:
>
> repeat for each char c in tSource
>   if c is in "abcdef...WXYZ0123456789-" then
>      put c after tDest
>   end if
> end repeat
>
> HTH,
>
> Jeff M.
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