OpenEuphoria

Re: comparison stacks

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jun 11, 2001
• 355 views

----- Original Message -----
From: Kat >

> <sigh>
> Ok, in the irc client, to handle the numerics from the server, the stack
will
> start with one "if", end with an "end if", and have *600* "elsif" in
between.
> Isn't that a little incredible?
>
I can think of several different ways to do this without the 600 elsifs...
1. Create a text file for each different server, containing lines like:
    10,doSomething
    145,SomethingElse
    412,Stuff
    593,MoreStuff

Read in the file line by line, parse on the comma, and store as two arrays,
{10,145,412,593....}
{"doSomething","SomethingElse","Stuff","MoreStuff",...}
then, when you get the numeric, do a find on array 1, and call
routine_id(array2)

This is good because it will be easy to write new tables (files) for
different servers.

2 Create an include file containing:
object v
   v = repeat(Null,600) -- Null should point to a 'do nothing' routine
.  v[10] = "doSomething"
   v[145] = "SomethingElse"
   v[412] = "Stuff"
...
then call routine_id(v[numeric])
This is a little more work to write the files for different servers, and
won't let you
change servers during a run.

3. Look at Jiri's associative arrays.
4. Create a Euphoria database, each table being a server, and each record
within
that table keyed to the numeric code. That record data can contain a routine
name,
plus any parameters that might need to be provided.

Probably the best in the longrun is #4.

Regards,
Irv