4 replies to this topic

[greyday01]

If you are checking for half a dozen or so conditions on an event would you use nested if / then's or a long if with multiple and checks on the same line?

 

This won't be running continuously or even frequently so speed would not be really an issue.

[IsharaMeradin]

Nesting might be easier with regards to testing.  You would be able to return notification or trace statements at each valid condition.  Thus finding out if a particular condition doesn't yield the results expected.

 

After testing, switching to a multi-line (separated by / ) may be easier to see what is intended to happen after having put the project down for some time.

[scorrp10]

I would say,  split it into multiple lines
 

if ( condition1 && \
     condition2 && \
     condition3 && \
     condition4)
    ...
endif

[greyday01]

Thank you. I never knew about the backslash to make a single line of script be split among several lines.

[IsharaMeradin]

Thanks for the example scorrp10.  I was clearly not thinking and indicated the wrong slash to use...