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wow, that was it. it is now taking just 2 minutes. i really didn't think that using would have cause that much of a slow down.

thank you!

Thierry,
it seems to have sped it up a bit, around 1/2hr instead of about 40 minutes. but it still seems to be slowing down as the script goes along.


For general tips on speeding up LiveCoce scripts, this thread is well worth the read:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24945

In your ...

i have a script that is parsing a a large text file, ~30,000 lines with around 40-50 items per line. its taking quite a long time to process it, sometimes 45mins. if i just loop through each line without parsing it, running my code, it takes about 3 minutes.

one of the interesting things is the ...

thank you for the help Klaus! it has been very frustrating to debug this problem, i will keep plugging away on this.

it does seem to work on the desktop but when i send to the iphone simulator it does not work
i get a 404 error message. but when i
the url is correct and if i would copy and paste that into a browser it would work.

i have been struggeling with this for a bit.
this works great

get url "myurl/folder/folder/text.txt"


but if i try and create a url from a variable it does not work

local tURL
put "myurl/folder/folder/" & fld "Variable" & ".txt" into tURL
get url tURL


i am making sure that there are not ...

i am having this problem as well, is not possible as of yet?