Too many case conditions?

[Showjumper]

I am working on a CF 2.0 PPC app that utilizes a treview control. Depeding
on what node is clicked, a user control is loaded and displayed. I am
loading the user control using a select case. So far there about 10 cases.
Is that too many? Is there such a thing as too many cases?

Thanks
Ashok

 

[Scott M.]

The more cases, the greater the possibility of a slower response time for
this case statement, but is there an actual limit to the amount of cases you
can have? Not, that I'm aware of. 10 is certainly not too many.

 

[m.posseth]

Note that you should set the case that is believed to take place the most
as the first case
also a good aproach might be to use at a certain point nested cases when a
situation takes place after another should have been taken place

by the way a select case is almost always faster as nested if then else
statements if you use the above described aproach it is always the fastest
aproach


regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]]

Hi Ashok,

No, 10 cases are not too many, and as long as they don´t contain expressions
that must be evaluated they are quite fast.

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Best regards,

Carlos J. Quintero

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