On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 22:55, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Sun, June 19, 2005 8:33 am, Robert Cummings said: > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 09:22, M. Sokolewicz wrote: > >> jenny mathew wrote: > >> >>Untested, very crude: > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > > It's a bit of a dirty hack though. If I compare a 2 character text > > against a 40k text, the error handler will be invoked (39998 * 3) times > > if $text1 is the 2 byte string. That's extremely inefficient. I don't > > think I've ever seen error suppression abused so badly to prevent > > writing an extra line or 2 using isset(). > > Don't you think I knew that when I typed it? > > What part of "very crude" did you not get? Well some noobs might think crude works quite well for them :) > Ya want me to do Jenny's work for her for free or what?! :-) No but it seemed like Jenny did *grin*. > The point was that depending on what Jenny wants for output, it could be > pretty easy to compare two strings character by character. > > Or it could be incredibly difficult, if you need diff-like capabilities of > recognizing similar lines of text interspersed with radically different > lines of text. > > She obviously didn't like the "use diff" answer, so I gave her the yeast > to roll her own. > > 'Course, she didn't like that either, but that's hardly my fault. > [shrug] -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
