RE: [PHP-WIN] multiple cases in switch statement

Matt, Mark and Cynic: Thanks that what I was looking for... it was right there in the damn annotated manual and I missed it... --------------------- John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com Web Applications Developer http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! Licking County, Ohio, USA 740-349-3631 The benefit to the government of replacing all $1 Federal Reserve notes with $1 coins would be $522.2 million per year, according to estimates of the General Accouting Office released on April 7, 2000. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Maggelet [mailto:maggelet@mminternet.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 5:42 PM > To: jasendorf@lcounty.com; php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] multiple cases in switch statement > > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:04:49 -0500, Asendorf, John > (jasendorf@lcounty.com) wrote: > >Hello all... > > > >I'm running a little address checker and attempting to catch ordinal > >numbers > >(first, second, third, etc) by catching multiple instances such as > > > >1st or 1 gives us FIRST > > > >so far I have this... the worst part about it is that part of this > >is > >working and the rest is not... when I enter "1" or "1ST" into it, I > >get > >FIRST back... > > > >when I enter "2ND" or "2" I get nothing back (not even the default > >no error, > >no nothin)... > > > >when I enter "3RD" I get THIRD back... > > > >When I enter "4TH" or "4" I get nothing back (not even the default > >no error, > >no nothin)... > > > > if ( eregi ( "[0-9]{1,2}([a-zA-Z])*" ,$num ) ) { > > //echo "hit the switch"; > > switch ($num) { > > case ("1ST" || "1"): > > this line will evaluate to either "case 1:" or "case true:" > what you really want to do is something like this: > switch($num){ > case "1ST": case "1": $street .= "FIRST"; break; > case "2ND": case "2": $street .= "SECOND"; break; > ... > } > > - Mark >