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While using Response.write is far away faster than concatenating strings, sometimes you need to store the entire output before printing it.  That’s when a special designed string builder class is required.

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Summary
StringBuilder
While using Response.write is far away faster than concatenating strings, sometimes you need to store the entire output before printing it.
Properties
growth_size
Buffer growth size.
Functions
reset
Clear the string builder data.
toString
Concatenate the fragments into a string.

Properties

growth_size

Buffer growth size.

Contains

(long) The growth size

Functions

reset

public function reset()

Clear the string builder data.

toString

public function toString()

Concatenate the fragments into a string.  Note that since VBScript does not provide a mid assignment statement, we are using the join function which is faster than straight concatenation, but does not scale well when called to concatenate arrays with a large number of elements.

Returns

(string) concatenated string

Example 

dim sStdConcat, stdConcat_a, stdConcat_b
dim sSbConcat, sbConcat_a, sbConcat_b
dim i
 
stdConcat_a = timer
sStdConcat = ""
for i = 0 to 10000
    sStdConcat = sStdConcat & "This is an average fragment of text."
next
stdConcat_b = timer
 
sbConcat_a = timer
set sSbConcat = new StringBuilder
for i = 0 to 10000
    sSbConcat.append("This is an average fragment of text.")
next
set sSbConcat = nothing
sbConcat_b = timer
 
Response.write("While the required time to concatenate the string with the & operator is " & (stdConcat_b - stdConcat_a) & ", the time consumed by the StringBuilder is " & (sSbConcat_b - sSbConcat_a) & ".")
Documentation by Fabio Zendhi Nagao.  Generated by GeSHi, Tidy and Natural Docs.
public function reset()
Clear the string builder data.
public function toString()
Concatenate the fragments into a string.