Re: Design Question

[Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Nathan,
That was what I thought, but just wondered if there was a better way.


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With only five conditions to test, anything other than a select group
> comes across as overly pedantic; even academic. With an interpreted
> language you might save a couple lines of code by pulling conditions from
> an array or something, but anything like that would just make the code
> harder to follow.
>
>
>
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> From: Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Design Question
>
> I have a file with the following fields: Condition, Value, Override
> The condition can be : LT, LE,EQ,GT,GE
> I will be testing a field to determine if the contents meet the condition.
> If so, then the override applies.
> Other than hard coding each of the conditions in a select group and then
> doing the appropriate test, is there a simpler method that I am missing?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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