From: Olivier Renaud <o.renaud@...>
Date: 2007-02-23T22:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's "case" doesn't behave like a normal switch

Le vendredi 23 f�vrier 2007 11:30, Brian Candler a �crit�:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:05:10PM +0900, Guillaume Nargeot wrote:
> > > case x
> > >   when "this", "that"
> > >     func_this_that()
> > >   when "nothing"
> > >     # something different
> > > end
> >
> > Thank you very much !!!
> > I thought I tested everything, but obviously not this one.
> > I didn't even find anything about it in the official documentation.
>
> http://www.rubycentral.com/book/tut_expressions.html
> Search down to the section headed "Case Expressions"

I didn't know about this syntax, either. Thanks, Eban ! For the Strings, I 
thought about using Regex, instead :

case x
  when /this|that/
    func_this_that()
  when "nothing"
    # something different
end

-- 
Olivier Renaud