what comes to faster, there is not much other you can do than test.
i.e., we had a test while back (on the board it should be) that compared the speed of simple substr() and split()...
if I remember correctly, with about 100.000 loops you could see about 0,7 ms difference... or something like that [Big Grin]
testing and benchmarking are indeed the keywords here.
also, obviously you will loose some speed with every new file you need to access from the script.
etc...

what comes to cleaner...
that's a matter of design.
and not all think same thing as clear.
if you have PostPrep you can view it's code.
most of the code is by jochen but at the very bottom you see a function that is totally written by me.
jochen wanted to clean it and I wondered...
for my eyes, it's clean as it can be [Big Grin]
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