2 regex or not 2 regex?

Mark Read

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• Dec 19, 2012

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Hallo,

have a look at the string functions from Margret

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4android-getting-started-tutorials/10365-string-functions.html#post57671

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mc73

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• Dec 19, 2012

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I know nothing about regularExrpessions, yet I think what you ask can be easily accomplished by checking the previous char of a char and setting the latter to uppercase if the previous one is one of the delimiters. You just loop through your string and use the charAt function.

 

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boten

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• Dec 19, 2012

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Yes, that's the obvious solution. I wonder if using Regex would be faster (for many long strings).

 

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Erel

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• Dec 21, 2012

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Regex will not be faster (assuming that you write your code correctly). Any method will need to go over all the characters.

 

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mc73

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• Dec 21, 2012

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Erel said:

Regex will not be faster (assuming that you write your code correctly). Any method will need to go over all the characters.

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This is very true. Sometimes we all tend to think that an in-built method will be faster, and we don't see the obvious (of course not all the time).

 

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