[OT] RE: switch statement

[David Graham <dg...@hotmail.com>]

If the parameter values all have different first characters you could 
extract the first char and use that in your switch.

David

>The reason I wanted to do this was to make my Action classes cleaner.  I
>send a parameter to the Action to determine which item to pull from a
>database, then forward to a certain page.
>
>I didn't think I could get the switch to work, it was worth a try though.
>For a situation like mine, what do you all find to be the best way of doing
>this?  I know I can use a series of if statements, it's just not very
>pretty...
>
>
>Keith Kamholz
>Programming and Architecture
>Moog Inc.
>
>Phone: (716) 687-7001
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Erik Price [mailto:eprice@ptc.com]
>Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 11:38 AM
>To: Struts Users Mailing List
>Subject: Re: switch statement
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>Kamholz, Keith (corp-staff) USX wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> > This is more of a Java question than a Struts question, I hope you all
>don't
> > mind.
>
>Not really, but for future reference I have found this resource to be
>more helpful for such questions:
>
>http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=31
>
> > I'm just wondering if there is any way to use a String for a switch
> > statement, or if you are restricted to the true primitive types.
> > I haven't found a way, but it seems like something that lots of people
>would
> > want that wouldn't be hard for the Java developers to allow for.
> > Wouldn't you agree?
>
>The reason why it doesn't work is probably specific to the
>implementation of the language (maybe performance reasons), but a lot of
>people don't miss it -- nor would they agree, I suspect.  The reason is
>that you can usually add behaviors to objects so that a single
>polymorphic method call can usually eliminate all of the infrastructural
>work of writing a switch statement, so doing a switch on an object
>doens't make much sense in that context.  Of course, this is not
>applicable in all senses, such as your case with String which is final....
>
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>Erik
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