From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2007-10-19T20:36:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Compound conditionals in case when statements?  Syntax?

On Wednesday 17 October 2007 01:46 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2007 01:25 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > I've tried the suggested approaches and variations that I could think of, 
> and  still no luck.

Ok, for the record I got it to work--here's a little working test program:

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

new_record = true
line = "---++ tasty"

case
when (new_record and /^---\+\+ (.*)/ =~ line)
   puts "a title if at the beginning of a record: " + $1
when /^---\+\+ (.*)/ =~ line
   puts "a level 2 heading if not at the beginning of a record: " + $1
else
   puts "neither a title nor a level 2 heading"
end

My mistake was leaving "line" after "case" when I tried to switch to the 
alternate form of case statement.  Sometimes (or more often ;-) I can be 
pretty dense.

(And, of course, the other thing I finally did was make a small test snippet 
of the code for experimentation.)

Randy Kramer