Command line text output

[Eleeist]

Hi,

I am developing a text based game. I need to pull long passages of text from database and display it to the user.

Therefore, I am wondering whether String is the most efficient way of processing and displaying the data? By long passages I mean 20+ lines at one time.

[JosAH]

Hi,

I am developing a text based game. I need to pull long passages of text from database and display it to the user.

Therefore, I am wondering whether String is the most efficient way of processing and displaying the data? By long passages I mean 20+ lines at one time.

Databases laugh about Strings with a length of 20*80 characters. Don't worry about it.

kind regards,

Jos

[Eleeist]

I know that :). My question is about Java String objects, not databases :)

[JosAH]

I know that :). My question is about Java String objects, not databases :)

Java laughs about such Strings too.

kind regards,

Jos

[Eleeist]

Hah! Thanks :)

[JosAH]

Hah! Thanks :)

You're welcome; when you think about it: you're displaying something in your console/terminal/whatever, the console is probably also a graphics application and a single character takes up quite some bytes there; so there's no need to worry about a couple of characters or where they came from ...

kind regards,

Jos