Re: change case script
Re: change case script
- Subject: Re: change case script
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 14:07:46 -0500
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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 16:46:32 -0800
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Subject: Re: change case script
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From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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On 11/2/01 3:33 PM, "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> set text item delimiters to {""}
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I notice that you are orthodox about resetting tids to the correct
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single-item list, Arthur, but throughout the script you set them to strings
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instead (lowerC's item x, "_", rather than {lowerC's item x}, {"_"}). I
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know you're big on timings and speed issues. Has anyone ever tested whether
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doing the string to list coercion for tids (which AppleScript does for you
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when you leave out the list braces) say, 5000 times, makes any difference
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whatsoever to performance?
I have never thought about this. My assumption has always been that
the typical value-to-single-item-list takes up very little time, but
I would welcome anyone showing this not to be the case.
When I write handlers, I try to always use the save, set, and restore
technique for tids, because I don't like to make any assumtions about
what the "main" calling script is doing with the delimiters, but when
I post "top-level" bits of code, I'm never sure what the best way to
deal with the tids is.
Arthur J. Knapp
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