C#•3y ago

❔ alternative to switch statement or if statements?

is there something better I can use in this situation?

int size = 300;
switch (HLevel.CurrentLevelId)
{
    case 0: 
        address = HOpal.address1; 
        size = 25; 
        break;
    case 10: 
        address = HOpal.address2; 
        break;
    default: 
        address = HOpal.address3; 
}

int size = 300;
switch (HLevel.CurrentLevelId)
{
    case 0: 
        address = HOpal.address1; 
        size = 25; 
        break;
    case 10: 
        address = HOpal.address2; 
        break;
    default: 
        address = HOpal.address3; 
}

21 Replies

sibber•3y ago

no not really

MattOP•3y ago

sad. It's kinda a gross and obnoxiously long statement. Maybe I'll just extract it to its own function to reduce the size of the method it's in

sibber•3y ago

yeah definitely do that

bialasik__•3y ago

@mcacutt maybe a tenary statement?

TheBoxyBear•3y ago

Not really if you assign multiple values and three cases can get messy Also not the best because of the size assignment but you could do

(adress, size) = HLevel.CurrentLevelId swutch
{
  someValue => (adressVal, sizeVal),
  ...
  _ => // default case
};

(adress, size) = HLevel.CurrentLevelId swutch
{
  someValue => (adressVal, sizeVal),
  ...
  _ => // default case
};

ero•3y ago

(address, int size) = HLevel.CurrentLevelId switch works by the way just in case you wanna inline the size declaration

TheBoxyBear•3y ago

Or just turn the addresses into an array so no need for a switch

amio•3y ago

A dictionary?

TheBoxyBear•3y ago

address = HOpal.adresses[HLevel.CurrentLevelId]

amio•3y ago

Splitting "separate" bits of logic into methods with meaningful names should be done anyway, btw 😛

TheBoxyBear•3y ago

just an array, the keys, in this case being member names already follow a number sequence and add an if special case for size on 0

amio•3y ago

Arrays "because they're numbers" is not automatically a good idea, it depends on what the keys are

TheBoxyBear•3y ago

Unless there are cases there some levels use the same address Or there's a huge number of levels with a lot of overlap to not justify an huge array

amio•3y ago

and if one of them is like int.maxvalue?

TheBoxyBear•3y ago

Then a dictionary of ids and addresses If the ids aren't sequential

amio•3y ago

So what I said, then.

TheBoxyBear•3y ago

But only if Dictionary works but might be overkill

amio•3y ago

No, the dictionary is not "overkill", what does that even mean

TheBoxyBear•3y ago

Might end up with duplicate sequential ids

amio•3y ago

The dictionary is the data structure of choice when you're mapping stuff from one thing to another and there's a simple equivalence. It's an ID. Anyway, amio out

Accord•3y ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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❔ alternative to switch statement or if statements?