Re: Importing/parsing CSV files
Re: Importing/parsing CSV files
- Subject: Re: Importing/parsing CSV files
- From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:28:37 -0300
At 7:36 AM +0100 9/13/06, Philip Aker wrote:
After Kai said
It was evidently Serge Belleudy-d'Espinose who discovered that
using a script object's properties to reference a list was not only
more efficient than direct access, but also faster than using "a
reference to". (Global variables or script properties could also be
used for similar referencing, e.g: "item n of *my* scriptProperty".)
FWIW, I believe it's commonly known as the Serge Technique.
Serge himself:
http://rome.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0405&L=MACSCRPT&P=R1536&D=0&H=0&I=-3&O=T&T=0
says:
"I stumbled upon the so-called technique 2 years ago by misreading the
very same Apple documentation at the beginning of this thread. Later
on Nigel Garvey introduced his own variant, so this is how you can
now use the Nigel/Serge technique to speed the use of lists. AFAIK
it's not documented anywhere but it's not a quick-and-dirty hack
either, it prooved rock solid."
Just to give Nigel some of the credit. It was from him that I learned it,
having started scripting in 2005 as he is still very active, and Serge
does not seem to be.
Cheers,
Philip Aker
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