From: "tobyclemson@..." <tobyclemson@...>
Date: 2007-07-04T20:04:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby case statement

Thanks, that's neater than the ways of doing it that I have found
since first posting.

On Jul 4, 11:36 am, Sharon Phillips <phillip...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > case type
> >   when 1
> >     # do stuff for type 1
> >   when 1,2
> >     # do stuff for both type 1 and 2
> > end
>
> > If it isn't valid, what is the easiest way to obtain this
> > functionality
>
> i=1
> case i
>    when 1:   puts "1"
>    when 1,2: puts "1 or 2"
>    when 3:   puts "3"
>    else      puts "other"
> end
>
>  > 1
>
> so it looks like the second one gets skipped.
>
> The best i can come up with (but I'm pretty sure someone else will
> come up with a much better alternative) is
>
> i=1
> case i
> when 1,2
>    puts "1 or 2"
>    puts "1" if i==1
> when 3
>    puts "3"
> else
>    puts "other"
> end
>
>  > 1 or 2
>  > 1
>
> Cheers,
> Dave