Hi Ro... Would your script go faster if you used lineoffset rather than 'is not in'?
If lineoffset(anElement,Gorp) = 0 then... I ask because I am not which method is faster in which circumstances. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ro Nagey Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:31 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: NPR puzzle Here's my humble submission: on doIt put the ticks into startTime put fld "element" into gorp repeat for each line l in fld "words" put "Yes" into myAnswer put l into myWord put myWord into daWord repeat 5 times put char 1 to 2 of daWord into anElement delete char 1 to 2 of daWord if anElement is not in gorp then put "No" into myAnswer exit repeat end if end repeat if myAnswer contains "Yes" then put myWord & return after finalAnswer end repeat put the ticks-startTime into totalTicks answer totalTicks && finalAnswer && the number of lines in finalAnswer end doIt Did it in 2 ticks and found 23 words :) Ro Nagey Apologies in advance if you get this twice - the first one got held up because it was too long _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution