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Re: Case statement question [message #42818 is a reply to message #42817]

Wed, 23 February 2005 08:32

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Michael Wallace wrote:
>> case 1 of
>> (x eq 0): do_this()
>> (x ge 1 and x le 9 ): do_that(x)
>> (x eq 10): do_something_else()
>> (x eq 11): do_something_more()
>> else: message, "Error!"
>> endcase
>
>
> Sweet! That works. I would have never thought to switch the logic
> around such that you're sending "true" into the case and looking for the
> case that evaluates to "true." I guess every example I've seen has been
> one where you send in the value you want to find, not the truth value
> you want to find. Wow. Can you tell that I'm easily amused by
> programming logic? Or maybe it's the caffeine talking. ;-)

I think it's the caffiene. :o)

Don't attribute any programming smarts to me - that example is straight out of the docs.

paulv

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		Re: Case statement question By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 23 February 2005 12:11
		Re: Case statement question By: R.G.Stockwell on Wed, 23 February 2005 09:19
		Re: Case statement question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 23 February 2005 08:32
		Re: Case statement question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 23 February 2005 08:31
		Re: Case statement question By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 22 February 2005 15:57
		Re: Case statement question By: Benjamin Hornberger on Tue, 22 February 2005 15:51
		Re: Case statement question By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 22 February 2005 15:50
		Re: Case statement question By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 22 February 2005 15:44
		Re: Case statement question By: David Fanning on Tue, 22 February 2005 15:37
		Re: Case statement question By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 22 February 2005 15:35

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