yeah, that LOOK's promising.
I will give ti a whurl.
Cheers, Jeremy Coulter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:12 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: VB Like Case statement
>
>
> > the one thing I DO miss from VB is its case statement which can
> be a number
> > or a string.
> >
> > i.e. select case myvariable
> > case "Hello"
> > show_hello
> > case "goodbye"
> > show_goodbye
> > end select.
> >
> > This has its good and bad points, BUT ofcourse in Delphi it
> pretty much has
> > to me an integer etc.
> > Does anyone have any ideas how this could be implemented in
> Delphi, OR if
> > Delphi has a simlilar type of thing....
>
> The best I' can think of is (not for efficiency but for flexibility with
> minimal code complexity)...
>
> with TStringList.Create do try
> commatext := 'Hello,Goodbye';
> case IndexOf(MyVariable) of
> 0: Show_Hello;
> 1: Show_Goodbye;
> else ;
> end;
> finally
> free;
> end;
>
> Note that there is not reason why the delphi compiler could implement
> non-ordinal cases as cascaded 'if' statements... It just that the
> designers
> haven't been nice enough to add that feature...
>
> (now if we had a wishlist for that kind of thing ;))
>
> --
> Aaron Scott-Boddendijk
> Jump Productions
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>
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