29 Jan 2009 The Sad Tragedy of Micro-Optimization Theater I'll just come right out and say it: I love strings. As far as I'm concerned, there isn't a problem that I can't solve with a string and perhaps a regular expression or two. But maybe that's just my lack of math skills talking. In all seriousness, though, the type of programming we do on Stack Overflow is intimately tied to strings. We're c