I'm working on a Hack project and I've come across a situation where I need to print $n
spaces. Here's how I'm currently doing it:
for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) echo " ";
I'm wondering whether $n
calls to echo is the most efficient way to go about this? From a little bit of googling, I learned that generally, multiple calls to echo are faster than string concatenation and that Hack doesn't have a built in StringBuilder equivalent. Does my for loop achieve that maximum efficiency or is there something else I'm missing?
Thanks!
If you are using HackLang, you should use HSL
( Hack standard library ) instead of legacy php functions.
The best way to go around this is to use Str\repeat
function ( similar behavior as str_repeat
in PHP )
use namespace HH\Lib\Str;
echo Str\repeat(' ', $n);
Note: make sure to use the same HSL version as HHVM
if you are using HHVM 4 ( recommended ), do
composer require hhvm/hsl:^4
if you are using HHVM 3, do
hhvm $(which composer) require hhvm/hsl:^3
etc...