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From
18/04/2021 16:18:27
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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18/04/2021 16:12:57
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01679827
Message ID:
01679885
Views:
67
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wMessBody = wMessBody + CHR(13) + ALLTRIM(STR(ScanGrL.OrdNmb))
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>>Do not forget comparing with literal containing chr(13) -- 0h0D. Finally there is no need to call a function or store something to a variable what is a clear literal.

I need to check how the VFP pcode / IL stores chr(13) - if it's passing "13" to the interpreter then there's a bit of overhead there.

This is fairly esoteric stuff though, since one of the VFP C++ Compiler obfuscation techniques involves making simple equations far more complex and introducing math. E.g. chr(13) might become chr(1003+47-1037) so a hacker can't just search for chr(13). The string "Hello" can be converted to a series of similar chr() concatenations for the same reason- yet impact on performance is negligible unless there's a huge looping construct.
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