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Re: Problems with speed & issues with coercion in OS 9.2.2
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Re: Problems with speed & issues with coercion in OS 9.2.2


  • Subject: Re: Problems with speed & issues with coercion in OS 9.2.2
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 19:35:43 -0800

On 1/26/02 6:23 PM, "Kai Edwards" <email@hidden> wrote:

> I can get a reasonable speed improvement from:
>
> on IsFolder(FullItemPathAndName)
> folder of (info for FullItemPathAndName)
> end IsFolder
>
> - or an even faster response from:
>
> on IsFolder(FullItemPathAndName)
> last text item of (FullItemPathAndName as string) = ":"
> end IsFolder

That would depend on first making sure that text item delimiters are set to
{""}. (Alternately, you might use 'last character', good in all
circumstances, but that's probably slower).

--
Paul Berkowitz


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 >Re: Problems with speed & issues with coercion in OS 9.2.2 (From: Kai Edwards <email@hidden>)

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