Re: Optimising string handling in application

[Frode Tenneboe <ft@alne.edh.ericsson.se>]

tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>   You don't need the temporary (Dummy) string.  Just calculate the
> length first,
>       Msg_Length := Msg_Length
>                     - (Start_Next_String-Stop_First_String-1)
>                     + Callsign_Length;
> then set Msg(1 .. Msg_Length) to the concatenation.

Well, yes. Except that you now have overwritten the length of the orignal
string, but that's easily fixed. Thanks.

However, sometimes I miss the expressionness of perl:

s/([^;]*;ME001=)([^;]*)(;[^;]*)/$1$callsign$3/;

;-)

>   Ah, so your abstract type is not "String", but rather a home-grown
> version of Bounded_String that passes the current length as a separate
> variable.  Let me guess where this code originated...

:)

 -Frode
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