Re: Most efficient way to recognize a line by its first (up to) three characters
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- Subject: Re: Most efficient way to recognize a line by its first (up to) three characters
- From: Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>
- Date: 2014年3月11日 20:01:28 +0200
On 11/03/2014 19:25, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
(using Lua 5.2.2 under Linux)
from a serial line I receive A LOT of lines
consisting of data in ASCII format.
The first one to three characters decide, how
I have to interpret the data.
Since data are transmitted FAST I want to make
the recognition code which branches into the
different data processing parts as efficient
as possible. The code will run on a embedded
system, so I will not have the memory for huge
look-up table or such...
And I will do it in pure Lua since this is the
reason why I do this in pure Lua! ;)
What is the "best" solution?
('best' in "" since this also a product of the
point of view ;)
For simplicity sake, let it always be 3 characters to decide.
Define as many 3-character identifiers as you need.
Then it is a simple if-else:
local prefix, info = line:sub(1,3), line:sub(4)
if prefix == "abc" then
-- do something
elseif prefix == "123" then
-- do something else
elseif ...
(Strings equality test is very cheap in Lua.)
--
Shmuel