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Faster string operations in VB
Introduction
This article is to provide examples of some routines for speeding
common string operations in VB, and a discussion of how and why they
work, and why I've chosen them over the possible alternatives.
Concatenation
Case-Insensitive Searches
Case-Insensitive Replace
Common Problems
Implementing Word-Wrap
Parsing Command-lines
