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[Dimitris Anogiatis]

hey Jussi,

I've tried a similar technique filtering about 5230 filenames and with my
old HyperThreaded P4 at ...2274...
It works pretty good for me :)

 as I said give it a try :)

Regards
Dimitris

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...>wrote:

> Usually string handling is slower than integer, although I haven't
> test that in Gambas.
>
> Jussi
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 22:43, Dimitris Anogiatis<dosida at ...626...> wrote:
> > Hey Jussi,
> >
> > If you want to find the duplicate values in an array... give this trick a
> > try
> >
> > 1) turn the array into a string
> > 2) store it in a temp string variable
> > 3) find the first occurence of the value you want
> > 4) put the rest of the string in another temp variable
> > 5) do a replace(tempString, "what you want to replace,", "")
> > 6) concat the 2 temp strings together
> > 7) split the string back into an array
> >
> > If you notice in step 5 I included the coma in the string you want to
> > replace
> > and that's because we don't want any duplicate comas it'll screw up the
> > splitting process at the end
> >
> > It's less cpu intensive than doing a for loop to find the duplicates
> > (At least I think so, correct me if I'm wrong)
> >
> > I've used a similar technique to filter certain items from a string array
> > don't think this technique would work on other kinds of arrays
> >
> > I hope it helps
> >
> > Regards
> > Dimitris
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:34 PM, M0E Lnx <m0e.lnx at ...626...> wrote:
> >
> >> What I do also to avoid duplicates is check the array before you add
> >> the new entry to it
> >>
> >> IF MyArray.Find("YourString") = -1 THEN MyArray.Add("YourString")
> >>
> >>
> >>
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