Re: Rép : Importing/parsing CSV files
Re: Rép : Importing/parsing CSV files
- Subject: Re: Rép : Importing/parsing CSV files
- From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:23:36 -0300
Excusez-moi, Yvan. I do read French, but hadn't
encountered this reference. If I had, I'd not
have thought of you because "Allez plus loin en
AppleScript" says that the authors are Daniel
Varlet et Laurent Sebilleau.
Adam
At 9:20 PM +0200 9/13/06, Yvan KOENIG wrote:
Le 13 sept. 2006 à 20:28, Adam Bell a écrit :
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.
These techniques are described in the book I wrote about in a recent message.
If you read french, you may look at this page :
<http://trad.applescript.free.fr/aplea.html>
and download "Allez plus loin en AppleScript".
read chapter "Optimisation et magie blanche" pages 137
It was published in year 2002.
Yvan KOENIG
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