RE: if/elseif being treated as if/if

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this would be the same as:
(commented below)

On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 15:30 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 2:23 PM -0400 9/24/10, Bob McConnell wrote:
> >
> >A switch works when a single test can dispatch all possible branches. If
> >you have a series of tests where each looks for a different subset of
> >conditions, you need an elseif.
> >
> >Bob McConnell
> 
> Bob:
> 
> Not so, O'wise one.
> 
> This will work:
> 
> switch(1)
>     {
>     case $a > $b:
if($a > $b)
>     /* whatever
>     break;
> 
elseif ($c == 1)
>     case $c == 1:
>     /* whatever
>     break;
> 
elseif($d == 'this works')
>     case $d == 'this works':
>     /* whatever
>     break;
>     }
> Granted, it's not the normal way a switch works in some other 
> languages, but it does work in PHP.  :-)
> 

All you have to remember, and same as with this switch, is that the
first match, will stop processing the rest of the stuff.

Steve.




> Cheers,
> 
> tedd
> 
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