I like your philosophy.
There is nothing wrong with my posted code in terms of execution efficiency or understand-ability in terms of my application.

I see how to do it shorter.
The solution of using \h gives me pause because it is obscure.
I wanted to know about this shorter method.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that I will use it in the production code.

Update:
My code snippet is just a very, very minor part of a Web Automation program which visits about 100K+ links. I am working with the webmaster for this site and we are developing new features. With our new features, I will only have to visit a max of 2K max web pages (Not 100k). In general a peep-hole optimization for a few lines doesn't matter much. The huge qains have to do with algorithms adjustments. That stuff can yield 50:1 or even 200:1, a huge performance increase.

In reply to Re^2: (Solved) Extracting sometimes null string from text variable by Marshall
in thread (Solved) Extracting sometimes null string from text variable by Marshall

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