Re: Regarding EVALUATE TRUE

Howard Brazee wrote:



Both options can be useful - and some languages give us both options.

Yep, the main language I use (BLISS) has both SELECT and SELECTONE where SELECT falls through the next section but SELECTONE works like EVALUATE where there is an implicit break to the end.

For COBOL, I like to do things like

EVALUATE TRUE
WHEN I < 256
PERFORM FITS-IN-A-BYTE
WHEN I < 65535
PEROFRM FITS-IN-A-16BITWORD
WHEN OTHER
PERFORM FITS-IN-A-32BITWORD
END-EVALUATE.

The order is important of course.

--
John Reagan
OpenVMS Pascal/Macro-32/COBOL Project Leader
Hewlett-Packard Company
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