Asking about performance of data retrieval

[eluser]nzmike[/eluser]
On the data retrieval? No it will not affect the speed of the database because by the time your query gets to the database the variable will have been evaluated to a string. On the other hand will it affect the overall speed of your program? Yes it will...but the performance difference is so slight it's probably not even measurable.

So in other words I can't see any performance issues with this piece of code. I am wondering why you're using a for loop though. Will it not drop out of the function after the first iteration?