Re: Is there a Shortcut here?

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

My personal preference, is to place the IF statement in it's own procedure.

Keeps the code cleaner, and allows the procedure name to clue me into
the business logic being accomplished instead of depending on a
comment.


so instead of:

//check if order is open
if status = 'A'
   or status = 'B'
   or status = 'C
   or status = 'D'
   or status = 'E'
   or status = 'F'
   or status = 'G'
   or status = 'H';


I'd have:

if IsOrderOpen(status);

Then consider rather it'd make sense to put the procedure in a service program.

HTH,

Charles

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am getting ready to write a nasty if statement and had a thought. "Is
> there a shortcut for this?"
>
> Is there something similar to the IN statement in SQL but for an RPG IF
> statement? In SQL I could say WHERE STATUS IN (1, 3, 5, 7, 9). Is there
> something similar for an RPG IF?
>
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