[erlang-questions] Which is best? string:concat or ++?

Mon May 7 16:47:36 CEST 2012

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Paul Barry <paul.james.barry@REDACTED> wrote:
> I take it that doing it that way is "faster" than string manipulation
> (or is there some other reason for this suggestion)?
>
> On 7 May 2012 15:12, Wes James <comptekki@REDACTED> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Paul Barry <paul.james.barry@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Hi folks.
>>>
>>> This might be a case of a dumb question, but here goes anyway.  :-)
>>>
>>> I have two strings, A and B.  Is it better to use:
>>>
>>>   string:concat(A, B)
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>>    A ++ B
>>>
>>> when combining them to create a new string?  I'm writing some code
>>> that generates a chunk of HTML.  I know that using ++ on big lists is
>>> regarded as a "no-no", but is it acceptable here?
>>>
>>
>>
>> You may want to consider, if possible, to move all your string
>> operations to binary format.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> A = <<"<html><head><title>">>.
>>
>> B = <<"My Title">>.
>>
>> C = <<"</title></head><body>hi</body></html>">>.
>>
>> All = <<A/binary, B/binary, C/binary>>.
>>
>> The All part could just be a return from a fun, etc.
>>
>> -wes
>
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> Lecturer, Computer Networking: Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland.