Switch, Case and wild-cards?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Mark:

Richmond's just exaggerating as he is oft want to do! He can't help himself; it's in his stars. 

Joe Wilkins

On Dec 27, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Richmond-
> 
> Thursday, December 27, 2012, 2:26:07 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> So there I am up to my thighs in a switch statement with a good 500 odd
>> cases . . .
> 
> I was going to answer, but Jacque beat me to it.
> 
> But wait... you've got a switch statement with 500 cases? That in
> itself would make me run around babbling about purple things. I'd bet
> there's a simpler (and probably faster - "the text of fld..." has to
> be evaluated at runtime, not compiled) way to accomplish what you're
> trying to do. Regex comes to mind, but I don't know what problem
> you're trying to solve.
> 
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> 
> 
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