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Re: CASE statement [message #26551 is a reply to message #26550]

Fri, 07 September 2001 13:23

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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K Banerjee (kbanerje2@home.com) writes:

> In IDL, is it possible to use mulitple expressions with a single
> statement?
>
> Something like:
>
> PRO CASE1, Tag
>
> case Tag of
>
> ;; The following line does not work.
> ('TIFF') or ('tiff'): begin
> print, "TAG is TIFF"
> end
>
> else: begin
> print, "TAG is UNKNOWN"
> end
>
> endcase
>
> end

No. The proper form of this CASE statement looks
like this:

CASE StrUpCase(tag) OF
'TIFF': Print, 'Tag is TIFF'
ELSE : Print, 'Tag is Unknown'
ENDCASE

Cheers,

David
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		Re: CASE statement By: R.Bauer on Mon, 10 September 2001 04:54
		Re: CASE statement By: Martin Downing on Mon, 10 September 2001 04:45
		Re: CASE statement By: Jeff Guerber on Fri, 07 September 2001 20:18
		Re: CASE statement By: gmccabe14 on Fri, 07 September 2001 18:44
		Re: CASE statement By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Fri, 07 September 2001 16:16
		Re: CASE statement By: Kristian Kjaer on Fri, 07 September 2001 15:17
		Re: CASE statement By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Fri, 07 September 2001 14:30
		Re: CASE statement By: Brian Jackel on Fri, 07 September 2001 14:41
		Re: CASE statement By: David Fanning on Fri, 07 September 2001 14:00
		Re: CASE statement By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Fri, 07 September 2001 13:39
		Re: CASE statement By: David Fanning on Fri, 07 September 2001 13:23
		Re: CASE statement By: marc schellens[1] on Wed, 12 September 2001 23:01
		Re: CASE statement By: george.mccabe on Wed, 03 October 2001 11:49

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