Subj : Translating CASE from BAS
To   : Mike Luther
From : Herbert Bushong
Date : Thu Feb 08 2001 11:47 pm

::> But .. that doesn't help much where the comparator was X$, for example and
::> is a variable length string.  I was a bad boy at an earlier time in life a

No, it doesn't help with that much at all. :)
You could do a series of nested switch statements (check first letter, check 
second letter, etc... until you've narrowed it down to a unique value), but 
that could get real hairy.

::> I'm not much better now.  Basicly, I'm still trying to digest what I ate w
::> I was a younger programmer.  Gloom.

:)   

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