note 62159 added to control-structures.switch

if you need to operate on the switch variable in the case statements you can access it as $_. For example, I was using switch to iterate over a set of mime types and I wanted to catch the image\* types. To do that I wrote this clause: switch($mime){ case(preg_match('/image.*/', $_)): ...put code here... break; } This tip may seem obvious to the experienced user, but not so obvious to the beginner. ---- Server IP: 216.194.113.175 Probable Submitter: 129.174.27.154 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+62159 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62159&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62159&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62159&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62159&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62159&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62159&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62159&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+62159&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php