Re: How best to extract digits from a string?
Re: How best to extract digits from a string?
- Subject: Re: How best to extract digits from a string?
- From: Richard 23 <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:40:31 -0700
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I understand that the "end of" syntax was provided as a speedier way of
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building lists than concatenating them. (The old AppleScript 1.1 release
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notes regarding the differences between linked lists and vector lists make
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fascinating if difficult reading.)
I have found the older documentation much more illuminating than anything
more recent. In particular the Apple Event Registry Winter 92 document
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even the Universal Interfaces files for AppleScript 1.0.
I'll occasionally use linked lists just for a break from curly braces!
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But I don't know anything about how strings are implemented under the hood,
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and I wonder whether the list approach in general is faster or slower than
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concatenating strings.
I would guess that concatenating strings would be faster since there's no
overhead as far as list/vector structures are concerned.
R23