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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist
From: james@safesearching.com (James Crumpton)

Can be done already ... sorta.

switch (true) {
         case ($str == 'abc'):
                 echo "it was ABC!\n";
                 break;
         case (preg_match('/^[0-9]+$/i', $str)):
                 echo "it was a number!\n";
                 break;
         default:
                 echo "it was no number :-(\n";
                 break;
}

*shrug*

-james

Ron Korving wrote:
 > I have another idea I came up with today: regular expression switches, but
 > it would be difficult without adding to the syntax.
 >
 > switch ($str)
 > {
 >   case "abc":
 >     echo "it was ABC!\n";
 >     break;
 >
 >   regcase "/^[0-9]+$/i":
 >     echo "it was a number!\n";
 >     break;
 >
 >   default:
 >     echo "it was no number :-(\n";
 >     break;
 > }
 >
 > Just an idea ;)
 >
 > Ron