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Opinions: ArrayList Vs. File IO

Paligulus · 2007-10-02 08:06:02

Hi Folks, Just wondering what peoples opinons were on using an ArrayList of up to 500 strings (of size no more than 10 chars). Is this too large? Should I use file IO for this instead? Would this be even slower when searching for an item as you would have to read the entire file each time, Thanks

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02-10-2007 9:06am

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Paligulus

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Hi Folks,
Just wondering what peoples opinons were on using an ArrayList of up to 500 strings (of size no more than 10 chars).

Is this too large? Should I use file IO for this instead? Would this be even slower when searching for an item as you would have to read the entire file each time,

Thanks

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#2 02-10-2007 9:31am
sicruise

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That is only 5000 chars!

Of course it'll much faster loaded into memory in an ArrayList format.

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#3 02-10-2007 10:04am
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Cheers for that. That's what I though!!! For some reason I started thinking it was bad programming practice.

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#4 02-10-2007 10:16am
sicruise

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No problem

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