Say we have the following string
string data= "/temp string";
If we want to remove the first character /
we can do by a lot of ways such as :
data.Remove(0,1);
data.TrimStart('/');
data.Substring(1);
But, really I don't know which one has the best algorithm and doing that faster..
Is there a one that is the best or all are the same ?
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I would just use
string data= "/temp string";
data = data.substring(1)
Output:
temp string
That always works for me.
You could profile it, if you really cared. Write a loop of many iterations and see what happens. Chances are, however, that this is not the bottleneck in your application, and TrimStart seems the most semantically correct. Strive to write code readably before optimizing.
I'd guess that Remove
and Substring
would tie for first place, since they both slurp up a fixed-size portion of the string, whereas TrimStart
does a scan from the left with a test on each character and then has to perform exactly the same work as the other two methods. Seriously, though, this is splitting hairs.
I know this is hyper-optimization land, but it seemed like a good excuse to kick the wheels of BenchmarkDotNet
. The result of this test (on .NET Core even) is that Substring
is ever so slightly faster than Remove
, in this sample test: 19.37ns vs 22.52ns for Remove
. So some ~16% faster.
using System;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
namespace BenchmarkFun
{
public class StringSubstringVsRemove
{
public readonly string SampleString = " My name is Daffy Duck.";
[Benchmark]
public string StringSubstring() => SampleString.Substring(1);
[Benchmark]
public string StringRemove() => SampleString.Remove(0, 1);
public void AssertTestIsValid()
{
string subsRes = StringSubstring();
string remvRes = StringRemove();
if (subsRes == null
|| subsRes.Length != SampleString.Length - 1
|| subsRes != remvRes) {
throw new Exception("INVALID TEST!");
}
}
}
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
// let's make sure test results are really equal / valid
new StringSubstringVsRemove().AssertTestIsValid();
var summary = BenchmarkRunner.Run<StringSubstringVsRemove>();
}
}
}
Results:
BenchmarkDotNet=v0.11.4, OS=Windows 10.0.17763.253 (1809/October2018Update/Redstone5)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU 2.60GHz (Skylake), 1 CPU, 8 logical and 4 physical cores
.NET Core SDK=3.0.100-preview-010184
[Host] : .NET Core 3.0.0-preview-27324-5 (CoreCLR 4.6.27322.0, CoreFX 4.7.19.7311), 64bit RyuJIT
DefaultJob : .NET Core 3.0.0-preview-27324-5 (CoreCLR 4.6.27322.0, CoreFX 4.7.19.7311), 64bit RyuJIT
| Method | Mean | Error | StdDev |
|---------------- |---------:|----------:|----------:|
| StringSubstring | 19.37 ns | 0.3940 ns | 0.3493 ns |
| StringRemove | 22.52 ns | 0.4062 ns | 0.3601 ns |
Source: Stackoverflow.com