In a message dated 5/17/2005 7:47:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> es, Will. There are two variables. The descriptor definition found in > $UVHOME/gcidir/include/DATUM.h states: > > struct Dstring > { /* This are my comments. GI */ > STRING str; /* This is the entire dynamic array. */ > int lastfield; /* This is the last field accessed. */ > uchar *lastfptr; /* This is a pointer into str.text */ Thanks Gyle for that information. So it seems like then it might be just as fast to also step *backward* through an array ? I suppose that would depend on whether there is also an opcode for "scan backward to delimited" like there is for "scan forward to delimiter". And then I would wonder if the code is optimized to actually try to determine whether it would be faster to scan backward from present, or forward from cell 1 ... And then by that time, system programmers would be saying "Why can't they just all use dimensioned arrays dammit" :) I suppose. Will ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/