Re: String functions: what's the difference?

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String functions: what's the difference?

measuring mostly overhead. I'd expect the third option to be the fastest (involves looking up 3 values, where the others have to iterate through a-z), but am I right? And reasons to prefer one? a-z doesn't contain all lowercase letters (it omits acents and symbols), but other than