Re: VB6 LISTBOX problem

<xx3884@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1192901428.750702.325760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I know adding so many entries to a listbox isn't
ideal, it was purely a quick way to sort alot of data...

Surely you jest! Even a very simple sorting algorithms will sort your 47000 strings ten times faster than dumping them into a ListBox with its Sorted property set to True, and the better sorting algorithms will sort them more than twenty times faster!

Mike




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