Had LST used <section name=foo> </section> to mark sections, instead of <section begin=foo />content<section end=foo />, it would be as easy as traversing the preprocessor output, which would already have the sections splitted.
Alex Brollo wrote:
2011/1/25 Alex Brollo alex.brollo@gmail.com
Just to test effectiveness of such a strange idea, I added some formal section tags into a 6 Kby text section.txt, then I wrote a simple script to create a "data area" , this is the result (a python dictionary into a html comment code) appended to the section.txt file:
<!--SECTIONS:{'<section begin=1 />': [(152, 990), (1282, 2406), (4078, 4478)], '<section begin=6 />': [(19, 115)], '<section begin=2 />': [(2443, 2821), (2859, 3256)], '<section begin=4 />': [(1555, 1901)], '<section begin=5 />': [(171, 477)], '<section begin=3 />': [(3704, 4042)]}-->
then I run these lines from python idle:
for i in range(1000):
f=open("section.txt").read() indici=eval(find_stringa(f,"<!--SECTIONS:","-->")) t="" for i in indici["<section begin=1 />"]: t+=f[i[0]:i[1]]As you see the code, for 1000 times: opens the file and loads it selects "data area" (find_stringa is a personal, string seach tool to get strings), and converts it into a dictionary retrieves all the text inside multiple sections named "1" (the worst case in the list: section 1 has three instances: [(152, 990), (1282, 2406), (4078, 4478)]
Time to do 1000 cicles: more or less, 3 seconds on a far from powerful pc. :-) Fast, in my opinion!
So, it can be done, and it runs, in an effective way too. Doesn't it?
Alex
It can obviously be done. But you should compare it against the original implementation. 3 seconds by itself isn't meaningful. Another thing to test would be using stripos() instead of those regex, in case it is faster.