I have a set of fields, call them A, B, C, and D. Each has the same
number of lines. Each field has different text (per line)
I need to combine the data - frequently - into a form that look like:
<i><tab><line i of fld A><tab><line i of fld B><tab><line i of fld
C><tab><line i of fld D><cr>
For the number of lines in the set of fields. Currently I do this as
follows:
put empty into vCombined
put fld A into v1
put fld B into v2
put fld C into v3
put fld D into v4
repeat with i=1 to the number of lines in v1
put i &tab& line i of v1 &tab& line i of v2 &tab& line i of v3 &tab&
line i of v4 into line i of vCombined
end repeat
I put the field contents into variable before the loop to combine them
as my understanding is variable access is faster than field access in a loop
My question to the Hivemind is: Is there a noticeably faster way to
covert these field to the tab delimited structure as show above than the
code above?
This current takes about 20 seconds for 2000 lines or about a second per
100 lines (very roughly, I was not using a timer in my code, just my
wristwatch seconds in the IDE debugger between breakpoints)
Thank you for any pointers in advance,
Paul Dupuis
Researchware
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