It isn't possible (or at least I haven't been able to) search for 
something like ++ or --.

I'm trying to find all instances of such things in all prg files of a 
large project.  From test reports in another of the NG's, it's apparent 
that it's much better to preIncrement than postIncrement by a facto of 
about 4 times.

Since the use of this is not generally used in large iterations, it 
probably doesn't have much impact on time, but I would like to review it 
anyway.

-Joe

Joe,
read that thread again - it is not a factor of 4 times!
It is just .02 seconds.

Regards,
Martin

"Joe Carrick" <joe.carrick@dslextreme.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:DpZa0qqjEHA.2992@S15147418...
> I'm trying to find all instances of such things in all prg files of a 
> large project.  From test reports in another of the NG's, it's apparent 
> that it's much better to preIncrement than postIncrement by a facto of 
> about 4 times.
>
> -Joe

Martin Altmann wrote:
> Joe,
> read that thread again - it is not a factor of 4 times!
> It is just .02 seconds.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> "Joe Carrick" <joe.carrick@dslextreme.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:DpZa0qqjEHA.2992@S15147418...
> 
>>I'm trying to find all instances of such things in all prg files of a 
>>large project.  From test reports in another of the NG's, it's apparent 
>>that it's much better to preIncrement than postIncrement by a facto of 
>>about 4 times.
>>
>>-Joe 
> 
> 
> 
Ahh, quite right - in fact, post icrement is actually .02 seconds 
faster.  I was looking at the 2 other examples that resulted in .22 
seconds which are pretty slow.

However, I still think that we should be able to search for ++ and -- etc.

-Joe

Joe,

I agree VX Editor should find 'em and I'm hopeful next version will since
you've pointed out the shortcoming.

ITM, I've found PowerGrep (http://www.powergrep.com/) to be a very helpful
utility.  Pays for itself at least 5 - 10 times a week.  Since I work on
much code I didn't write in the first place I constantly have need for
finding things.

HTH,

    >don<



"Joe Carrick" <joe.carrick@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
news:DpZa0qqjEHA.2992@S15147418...
> It isn't possible (or at least I haven't been able to) search for
> something like ++ or --.
>
> I'm trying to find all instances of such things in all prg files of a
> large project.  From test reports in another of the NG's, it's apparent
> that it's much better to preIncrement than postIncrement by a facto of
> about 4 times.
>
> Since the use of this is not generally used in large iterations, it
> probably doesn't have much impact on time, but I would like to review it
> anyway.
>
> -Joe