Hello Mark,
Friday, October 3, 2008, 4:52:39 PM, you wrote:
MV> Is there a reason to prefer one of these approaches over the other? MV> Maybe one is more efficient and should be preferred if doing a large MV> number of appends.
speed is the reason for the stream approach. The #, approach copies the first string once for each #, send.
MV> Are there other approaches I should consider?
Don't know of any but then I'm not an expert.
Cheers,
Herbert