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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Excellent thanks... I will go with my option
B.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Regards<BR>Paul McKenzie<BR>SMSS Ltd.<BR>Wellington<BR>New Zealand</DIV>
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<A title=ross@stationplaylist.com href="mailto:ross@stationplaylist.com">Ross
Levis</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:28
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DUG] String Copying</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As someone pointed out recently, assigning a
string to another string only copies 4 bytes, no matter how big the string
is. Only the memory location is copied unless the 2 references to the
string go out of scope, in which case the string is copied in it's
entirety. The Copy command, however, will copy each byte of the string
to a new memory location.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ross.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=kyley@harrissoftware.com
href="mailto:kyley@harrissoftware.com">Kyley Harris</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:15
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DUG] String Copying</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Not sure, but I get the feeling that writing a small test
including a timer and a loop will be the fastest answer ;)<BR><BR>Paul
McKenzie wrote:
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it much slower to copy part of a string
"Copy(AStr, 2, Lenght(AStr))" than it is to copy an entire
string.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am look at doing this sort of thing
reasonably often - for up to 1000 strings.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards<BR>Paul McKenzie<BR>SMSS
Ltd.<BR>Wellington<BR>New Zealand</FONT></DIV><PRE wrap=""><HR width="90%" SIZE=4>
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