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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:50:55 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6.0 Wishlist
From: r.korving@xit.nl ("Ron Korving")

Funny solution :) Not very elegant I think (no offence, coz it is a smart
one), but it works. It would be nice if the language provided it.. Another
problem though with my idea (and not your solution) would be that a
"regcase" would have the PHP syntax rely on an external library.

Ron


"James Crumpton" <james@safesearching.com> schreef in bericht
news:4329E054.8070206@safesearching.com...
> 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