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javascript array looping and string concatenation

I have a string of product options thats one huge string where the options are separated by the ~ character. total options are over 3000.

Whats the fastest (best performing) way to make this into a select with each of the product options going into <option>product option</option> elements?

I can use jQuery also

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Steve Krile

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VirusMinus

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thanks skrile, can you prove that using jQuery's each is faster than any of the other js looping techniques?

and also can you prove that appending as you have suggested 3000+ times is faster than other concatenation methods?

like
http://www.bloggingdeveloper.com/post/JavaScript-Array-Join-vs-String-Concatenation-Avoid-String-Concatenations-Major-Hit-on-Performance.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153381/javascript-string-concatenation-faster-than-this-example
http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com/jspwiki/javascriptstringconcatenation
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/29
http://devpro.it/examples/loopsbench/
http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/05/09/string-performance-an-analysis/

Steve Krile

Nope...can't prove it. But, it's pretty darn efficient.

Steve Krile

However - your question is about parsing a concatenated string, not concatenating a string. So, is this *more* efficient than parsing using javascript and some sort of i++ loop - don't know.

VirusMinus

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Not exactly but it helped