From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: gettext for Ada Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:03:23 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2c5d0dff-bc12-4b37-b8e1-ac176c3e675f@googlegroups.com> <40dc6a79-9434-4b5a-bed0-50ee1dfb74c5@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: MajGvm9MbNtGBKE7r8NgYA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49217 Date: 2017-11-28T18:03:23+01:00 List-Id: On 2017-11-28 01:48, Randy Brukardt wrote: > The above is quite common in my code (perhap premature optimation on my > part, knowing that a function like To_Upper is many times more expensive > than a string compare). I convert the source line to the preferred case as I read it in and then work with that source. Then when comparing something against a set of alternatives if-elsif-elsif is a pretty bad choice. I put the alternatives into a table which is matched against the source using binary search (or hash if you prefer that). To make the table lookup case-insensitive is no big deal. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de