Now, we are going to get slightly esoteric here. I'd noticed that the performance of string concatenation tasks didn't increase in a linear fashion with increasing size of a string. For a short string, it was blindingly fast, but when you scale up, the performance gets disappointing. When you're handling… Read more

 There are a number of occasions when one might want to insert information at various places in a string. Where one has a template for reporting or emailing, for example; or maybe creating an HTML-formatted result.  Here is a method that I've used a fair amount, and which I'm refining… Read more