Re: Performance and faster idioms

[Phil M <phil at mobleybros dot com>]

On Feb 28, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Ronald Vogelaar wrote:

> I have created a global function which I use in stead of CountFields:
>
> FastCountFields(txt as string, txtsep as string) as integer
> Dim i, j as integer
> i=0
> j=instrb(txt,txtsep)
> while j>0
>  i=i+1
>  j=instrb(j+1,txt,txtsep)
> wend
> Return i
> End Function
I do not know if this is a fair comparison since the RB CountFields() 
is case-insensitive.  Your test is case-sensitive which would 
definitely make it faster, but less flexible (if that is what you 
want).
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