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Re: Bug in SWITCH - ELSE: statement? [message #56306 is a reply to message #56232]

Thu, 11 October 2007 09:47

R.G.Stockwell
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Registered: October 2004

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"Paul van Delst" <Paul.vanDelst@noaa.gov> wrote in message
news:feliu2$p9t$1@news.nems.noaa.gov...
...
> Goodness.... I never even thought of that. Why on Earth should the order
> of the case selectors matter in a CASE construct? I just wrote:
>
> pro test_case, number
> case number of
> else: print, 'I do not like this number!'
> 1: print, '1 is a good number'
> 2: print, '2 is even better'
> 3: print, '3 is weird looking'
> endcase
> end

That seems exactly like it should behave to me.
It executes the first match "else' and jumps out.

I figure the code above is something like

pro myjunk
print,'hi'
return
print, 'never executed'
end

Cheers,
bob

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		Re: Bug in SWITCH - ELSE: statement? By: R.G.Stockwell on Fri, 12 October 2007 13:56
		Re: Bug in SWITCH - ELSE: statement? By: Matt[2] on Fri, 12 October 2007 13:40
		Re: Bug in SWITCH - ELSE: statement? By: JD Smith on Fri, 12 October 2007 12:43
		Re: Bug in SWITCH - ELSE: statement? By: R.G.Stockwell on Thu, 11 October 2007 09:47
		Re: Bug in SWITCH - ELSE: statement? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 11 October 2007 09:42
		Re: Bug in SWITCH - ELSE: statement? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 11 October 2007 09:27
		Re: Bug in SWITCH - ELSE: statement? By: larkn10 on Thu, 11 October 2007 08:39

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