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IF and case

Former Member — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:18:39 GMT

hi experts

can anyone let me know the diff if and case stmts.

i read that performance wise case is good but how.

regads

alson

Re: IF and case

Former Member — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:20:10 GMT

if u want check only the value of a variable many no. of times u can go for Case.

otherwise always if statement only

I think u will understand after reading the statement(that we cannot do anything else with case statement).

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Regards

Sudheer

Re: IF and case

Former Member — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:20:13 GMT

Both does the same thing and have same meaning

but instead of writing more number of IF's we use CASE..endcase.

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Regards

Anji

Re: IF and case

Former Member — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:23:10 GMT

HI,

case statement is good for performance wise because here we declare cases

and according to these cases program will be executed.

When we use if statement then the cursur goes to in the loop, when ever

the loop is not complete till then the programme will not execute.

Thats by in performance basis the case statement is good.

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Regards,

vijay

Re: IF and case

Former Member — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:23:19 GMT

Hi,

Let me try and explain using an example...

1) For IF statement...

Suppost you have a variable color..and you are checking it against color names.

then your code will be

IF COLOR == 'BLUE'.
    statements
ELSEIF COLOR == 'BLACK'.
    statements.
...and so on....
ENDIF.

But if you use CASE Statement

CASE COLOR.
when 'BLUE'.
   statements.
when 'BLACK'.
  statements.

so follows that CASE is easy to use and performance wise is also better.

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Thanks,

Tatvagna.

Re: IF and case

Former Member — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:29:13 GMT

Hi.

have a look at this senario.in this if a = 4.in case of IF it should take a decition for 4 times(check a = 1 or not,check a = 2 or not,check a = 3 or not,check a = 4 or not,).where as in case of CASE always it will take decition once(check the value of a and directly goes to when 4).

if a = 1.

.....

elseif a = 2.

.......

elseif a = 3.

.......

elseif a = 4.

.......

endif.

*************************

case a.

when 1.

........

when 2.

........

when 3.

........

when 4.

........

endcase.

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rgds,

bharat.

Re: IF and case

former_member196280 — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:36:43 GMT

Both does the same thing.

For reading case statment looks good.

Regards,

SaiRam

Re: IF and case

Former Member — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:40:42 GMT

hi,

for if statement when it has no .of . conditions then control validates each n every condition n excutes the result.

in case of case a particular block is executed insted of executing each n every condition n control comes out of block.

so execution time for case is less when compared to if.s

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with regards,

suresh babu aluri.

Re: IF and case

Former Member — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:41:10 GMT

hey Alson,

Both these are used for checking multiple conditions like:

if (cond1

or cond2

and cond3...

...so on...)

where as case x:

when 'y'.

code...1

when 'z'.

code..2.

endcase.

for case, the system compares 'x' with the values followed by when and executes the logic followed by the matching when stmt.

of course by seeing it, it is clear that if is a bit lengthy and takes more time than case stmt.

Regards

Praveen

Re: IF and case

Former Member — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:33:44 GMT

Hi alson

Yes you are right performance wise CASE is best,because CASE statement is useful when we are having multiple options for the same variable but when we have to use mutiple conditions simultaneously then it would be better to use if else.

1)CASE XXX.

when 'XXX1'.

Stmts.

endloop.

2)If XXX.

then stmts.

endif.

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