Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS @ Pike developers forum wrote:
>Hmm, I almost never pick strings apart into individual characters
>since I believe it's slow (although I really haven't measured). I
>usually manage to do it in ways where the individual char picking is
>kept at the C level (sscanf ftw).
When parsing structures which can extend over newlines and/or support
wierd quoting rules (like csv), it's almost inevitable.
>> The result is that I would like to accumulate the results piecemeal
>> in an array. This array gets filled like in the example above.
>> Then I'd like to return a single string to the function caller,
>> in which case I could cast it to string (as done above).
>And you can't use String.Buffer for it? It has add() for strings and
>putchar() for chars.
I didn't know String.Buffer existed. Looks interesting (and useful).
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