Re: 'if' statement to control switch case
On Apr 11, 7:18 am, John <r...@newsgroup.com> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm experimenting a little with creating a custom CEdit control so that
I can decide on what the user is allowed to type into the control. I
started off only allowing floating point numbers then added support for
putting in lat/lon coordinates.
I tried this little piece of code inside the OnChar function but
compiler complained about missing ';' after "case _T('W'):"
switch(nChar)
{
if(m_bLATLON) // if latlon then no negs and 4 extra chars.
{
case _T('N'):
case _T('E'):
case _T('S'):
case _T('W'):
}
else
case _T('-'); // if not latlon we are allowed negs.
case _T('.'): // allowed characters on both cases.
case _T('0'):
case _T('1'):
case _T('2'):
case _T('3'):
case _T('4'):
case _T('5'):
case _T('6'):
case _T('7'):
case _T('8'):
case _T('9'):
case _T('\b'):
break;
default:
return;
}
now I could just have the 'if' statement first and then have two
seperate switch statements but i would rather do the method above as it
'looks' more elegante :o)
....and bloody confusing. Duff's Device did a similar trick for the
purposes of optimization, but I don't think optimization is your major
concern here (or at least it shouldn't be at this stage in your
development). Prefer to go with a straightforward, readable approach
even if it's less "cool". As Kernighan, co-creator of C, said,
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by
definition, not smart enough to debug it." That seems to apply
directly here.
Cheers! --M
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