Re: Ranges for case statement and a WTF moment.

On 04/05/2011 10:28 AM, Richard Quadling wrote: > Hi. > > I just wanted to quickly see if PHP supported ranges in its > switch/case statement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis) > > <?php > $s = intval(date('s')); > switch($s) > { > case 0...9 : echo 'Between 0 and 9'; break; > case 10...19 : echo 'Between 10 and 19'; break; > case 20...29 : echo 'Between 20 and 29'; break; > case 30...39 : echo 'Between 30 and 39'; break; > case 40...49 : echo 'Between 40 and 49'; break; > case 50...59 : echo 'Between 50 and 59'; break; > default : echo 'Unknown : ', $s; > } > ?> > > Completely unexpectedly, the above code runs but produces the wrong output. FYI. My first inclination would have been: switch(true) { case in_array($s, range(0, 9)): echo "0 - 9"; break; } But it's messy. -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com