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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: best way to handle long strings!?
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:34:12 +0200
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Jonas wrote:

> for example: for a texteditor or sourceditor is it usefull to use the
> unbounded strings? and to put all lines in one string? or is there a
> better method to handle this?

I would certainly consider to use a data structure, which 
reflects the data better than just one long string. If you 
are going to edit Ada source code, which is line based, some 
kind of table/list/array of lines will probably make more sense.

Greetings,

Jacob
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