[Avitar]

Hey all,

I read the wiki about using the switch statement and use it frequently in other languages I code in but this has me puzzled; I am using a switch with a string argument to do mass comparisons but receive errors. I think my problems here are the crappy way that smalltalk/source mod handles data types. Also i know you have to use a function to do a string comparison ie. strcmp -- so I am not sure what hack to use, but needless to say this doesn't work as expected:

switch(str){
    case "apple":{PrintToChatAll("\x04Apples");break; }
    case "banana":{PrintToChatAll("\x04Banana");;break; }
    case "beer":{PrintToChatAll("\x04Beer");;break; }
    case "milk":{PrintToChatAll("\x04Milk");;break; }
    default:{PrintToChatAll("\x04Fail");} 
}

Edit: oops thought I clicked on source mod scripting, can someone put it in that section?

[naris]

switch won't work with strings. You are going to have to use if else if.

Also, pawn doesn't use break with switch statements.

if (StrEqual(str, "apple"))
    PrintToChatAll("apple");
else if (StrEqual(str, "banana"))
    PrintToChatall("banana");
else if (StrEqual("str, "beer"))
    PrintToCharAll("beer");
else if (StrEqual(str, "milk"))
    PrintToCharAll("milk")
else
    PrintToChatAll("fail");

[Avitar]

blah, i guess it is time to fall back to spaghetti code,

[danielkza]

Originally Posted by Avitar blah, i guess it is time to fall back to spaghetti code,

You can always loop through an array if you have too much strings to deal with.