The problem with that kind of approach is essentially, the algorithm
counts words one at a time to get to the one you want: 1,2,3,... which
is fine for 100 words, but unworkable for a million.
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Laurie Alvey <trukke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To split a string into words you can use something like this:
>
> n = GETWORDCOUNT(mysring)
> FOR i = 1 TO n
> ? GETWORDNUM(mystring,i) && do something with the word
> ENDFOR
>
> Laurie
>
> On 10 September 2016 at 16:02, Stephen Russell <srussell...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is there a split function in VFP to take every word of the string into an
>> array? Then you could parse each array element till done.
>> C# example here.
>>
>> string s = FromYourTextfile;
>> // Split string on spaces.
>> // ... This will separate all the words.
>> string[] words = s.*Split*(' ');
>> foreach (string word in words)
>> {
>> // parse your word here for what you need.
>> }
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Joe Yoder <j...@wheypower.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a routine that processes each character in a file. The file I am
>> > working with is over 2 million characters long. I pull it into a memory
>> > variable with filetostr and then process each character with the substr
>> > command. Apparently substr has problems when dealing with a long string
>> as
>> > the process is painfully slow.
>> >
>> > I suspect that I will be better off using the low level file routines to
>> > read one character at a time but thought maybe someone knows of a way to
>> > speed up the approach I am using now.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> > Joe
>> >
>> >
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