Subj : Translating CASE from BAS
To   : Mike Luther
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Feb 09 2001 09:44 am

 ML> But .. that doesn't help much where the comparator was X$, for
 ML> example and X$ is a variable length string.  I was a bad boy
 ML> at an earlier time in life and I'm not much better now.
 ML> Basicly, I'm still trying to digest what I ate when I was a
 ML> younger programmer.  Gloom.

yes, if X$='fred' you can't case or switch that out... you have to break down 
to only one value... i don't think that adding the values together will be of 
much help since more than one set of adds can equal the same result... at some 
point, you will end up with the if/then/else structures... even if only to 
assign a single value to be able to case or switch with... however, doing that 
if/then/else tree once and then using the single value every else is much 
better than using if/then/else everywhere that you need to branch based on that 
selection...

)\/ark

 
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