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Re: Replacing characters (Matt: bug)

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Sep 17, 2002
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The time results in my test for replacing one char with one are:
Henri   3.95
Andy   2.8
Derek  3.3
Matt1 25.98
Matt2 29.93

zip of test attached.

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: Replacing characters (Matt: bug)


>
> Also Matt, the line ....
>
>   text = text[1..ix-1] & b & text[ix+lena..lent]
>
> can sometimes try and use negative slice length.
>
> And my effort doesn't work if you are shrinking the text.
>
> To fix my code, change ...
>
>     t = repeat(0, (floor(length(s) / length(a)) + 1) * length(b))
>
> to ...
>
>     m = (floor(length(s) / length(a)) + 1) * length(b)
>     if m < length(s) then
>         m = length(s)
>     end if
>     t = repeat(0, m)
>
> Also mine fails if the searched-for object is zero length.
> So change ...
>     if atom(a) then
>         a = {a}
>     end if
>
> to
>
>     if atom(a) then
>         a = {a}
>     elsif length(a) = 0 then
>         return s
>     end if
>
> ----------------
> cheers,
> Derek Parnell
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Moyer" <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Replacing characters (Matt: bug)
>
>
> > Some tests (not exhaustive) of the 3 "replace characters" routines
> recently
> > shown here:
> >
> > Matt's now doesn't fail on replace last character, but doesn't actually
> > replace the last character, & is *very* much slower than either of the
> other
> > two
> >  (one test: Henri: 3.9, Andy:  2.75 , Matt:  24.06) ;
> >
> > Henri/Mike "vulcan" routine is faster than Matt's but won't replace one
> char
> > with 2;
> >
> > Andy's is fastest. How much faster seems to vary.  On a "long" sequence
to
> > peruse, it seemed twice as fast as Henri/Mike "vulcan", but on many
> > repetitions of replacing in smaller sequence, it seems only 1.4 times
> faster
> > (see test results above).
> >
> > I've attached the tests I ran in case I did something dumb in them.
> >
> > Dan Moyer
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andy Serpa" <renegade at earthling.net>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 3:56 PM
> > Subject: RE: Replacing characters (Matt: bug)
> >
> >
> > > Andy Serpa wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Henri Goffin wrote:
> > > > >> global function replace_in_string(sequence s, object o, object n)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The "so" sequence is not necessary.  You can compare the sequence
> > > > directly to the atom "o":
> > > >
> > > > s += (s = o) * (n - o)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Of course this, while devoid of cleverness, is at least 10x faster
(and
> > > does swaps too):
> > >
> > > function replace_in_string(sequence s, object o, object n)
> > > integer ni
> > >
> > > if atom(o) and atom(n) then
> > > for i = 1 to length(s) do
> > > if s[i] = o then
> > > s[i] = n
> > > end if
> > > end for
> > > return s
> > >
> > > elsif sequence(o) and sequence(n) and length(o) = length(n) then
> > >
> > > for i = 1 to length(s) do
> > > ni = find(s[i],o)
> > > if ni then
> > > s[i] = n[ni]
> > > end if
> > > end for
> > > return s
> > > else
> > > return -1
> > > end if
> > >
> > > end function
> > >
> > >
>
>
>

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