[Gambas-user] about string manipulating and replace$()

[fabien]

Le Dimanche 19 Juin 2005 19:01, rospolosco at ...152... a écrit :
> Hi.
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> Firtst of all I want to thank Benoit for his fantastic software: gambas is
> absolutely *** G R E A T !!!***.
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> I'm working on a program. In this program I have to compare millions of
> string, one compared to another one, to know how many chars of string1
> are equal and in the same position in string2. Example:
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> string1 = "1234567"
> string2 = "0004007"
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> Result = 2. In fact "4" and "7" are equal and in the same position.
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> At this moment, I do the job using a  FOR and Mid$(), but the process
> take a very long time when you have to compare thousands or million of
> strings.
>
> I think we should reduce the time for processes like this one, if gambas
> had natively a function for that purpose ( Please, Benoit....) Example:
>
> Result = The_Function$("1234567", "0004007")
>
> > 2
>
> Please, somebody has a suggestion to speed up the process?
>
> Request for Benoit:
>
> Is possible to implement in Replace$() the model in square brackets
> as in the LIKE operator?
>
> I mean:
>
> Replace$("Gambas me gusta muchissimo", [^a-a],"")

I think you are talking about a tool like regular expression ?

in php : ereg_replace

mabe rob can add this to the pcre componant ?

Fabien




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