Hi Andrew,
we all know you as Basic expert, if you identify this kind of problems
feel free to change it in the wiki directly. That is the main advantage
of the wiki. You can change things on the fly. And of course it was main
reason to shift to the wiki, to make contributions easier.
Clayton please correct me if i am wrong.
Juergen
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Clayton, I am using a BCC to copy you directly, because I think that I
really need to ask you about this. I am sending directly to the api list
as a backup.
I do not want to complain too loudly, since I really like these Wiki
pages, but...
I have seen errors in the documentation regarding the Case statement
over the years. I think that some have been fixed (like in the help),
but I found one on the Wiki today. I was making minor changes to the
Wiki, but I really do not want to change this unless the Wiki is the
master.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide/Branching
This incorrectly states :
Select Case Var
....
Case Var > 8 And Var < 11 ' ... Var is greater than 8 and less
than 11
.....
This is not correct. In fact, it is not even close. What it really does,
is to evaluate (Var > 8 AND Var < 11), which returns a value of 0
(False) or -1 (True), and then compares Var to 0 or -1.
you can do something tricky like the following, but that is pretty
slick, which makes me think that Bernard Marcelly came up with it, but I
do not remember now:
Case Var XOR NOT(Var>8 AND Var< 11)
Better to use "To" if you can use equality rather than inequality.
Case 8 To 11
In my book, I have a creative IIF statement to deal with this as well.
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