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[nycphp-talk] range in switch/case

Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg adam at trachtenberg.com
Thu Feb 5 13:46:25 EST 2004


On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Chris Bielanski wrote:

> I'm being lazy - in Pascal/Delphi you can assign a range as a case in a
> switch statement. for example... case(0..255) or case('A'..'Z').
>
> Does PHP have a facility to do this? I note that the above doesn't like me
> very much ;)

No. Switch to an if()...elseif()...else() and use a regular expression
character class or something similar inside the if().

There was a brief talk of adding this to PHP, but it was rejected.

-adam

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