Thanks Richard. To give a better picture of the requirements, the gCodes will be read from a user editable preference file (.txt), so there could easily be 3 or more (or less) items that have to be examined for each line of tList (a report file).
At the moment, it works for the hard-coded 3 gCodes. That's why I tried "or" in hopes of filtering them all in a single pass. I'm going to build a smarter repeat that can adjust to the number of items in gCodes. ~Roger On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Roger Eller wrote: > >> >> Perhaps I should just loop through each line checking if it 'contains' one >> of the codes instead? >> > > I would do that. > > Regex is handy at times, but it's a complex subsystem and notoriously slow > with complex operators. > > I'll bet if you can first run a filter against the left-most column, a > "repeat for each" on the remainder would likely be about as fast as you can > get. > > Sometimes "repeat for each" on the whole thing is faster than "filter". > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > Follow me on Twitter: > http://twitter.com/**FourthWorldSys<http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
