Select Or If?

[emmanuel]

so, people say that select is better for some things, and If better for others... Which is better for what? (I guess that's the short version of the question)

[Jon]

It's mostly a personal thing. Anything more than 3 "if" or "elseif" choices and I would use Select. But then other devs would use elseif for many more.

The basic rule would be "for a few choice" use if/else/elseif. Otherwise use Select.

[scriptkitty]

The basic rule would be "for a few choice" use if/else/elseif. Otherwise use Select.

and for a lot of choices use a loop.

$aX=Stringsplit("1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,bob,fred,jill",",")
$answer="notfound"
for $i=1 to $aX[0]
if $aX[$i]="bob" then $answer="found"
Next
MsgBox(1,"",$answer)

[emmanuel]

and for a lot of choices use a loop.

ok, I almost get this, I want to walk through it to see if I do.

$aX=Stringsplit("1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,bob,fred,jill",",")

that part the string and splits it based on the ","

$answer="notfound"

sets the default answer

for $i=1 to $aX[0]

$aX[0] would be the number of lines in the array, correct?

And the For makes it loop that many times, right?

if $aX[$i]="bob" then $answer="found"

checks $aX[$1] if it's "bob" then changes $answer to found...

Next

it does all of that up to the next as many times as was set at the begining...

MsgBox(1,"",$answer)

ok, cool, didn't quite get that till I walked through it...