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Re: Meeting a matrix of conditions
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Re: Meeting a matrix of conditions


  • Subject: Re: Meeting a matrix of conditions
  • From: Graff <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:38:58 -0400

You can do it with a record, which at least makes it a bit more readable:
----
set keyValuePairs to {¬
{theKey:{"av", "bx", "bw", "bz", "dx", "ev"}, value:"apple"}, ¬
{theKey:{"aw", "cv", "dy", "dz", "ez"}, value:"orange"}, ¬
{theKey:{"ax", "cw", "cx", "ey"}, value:"banana"}, ¬
{theKey:{"ay", "cz", "dv", "ew"}, value:"mango"}, ¬
{theKey:{"az", "bv", "by", "cy", "dw", "ex"}, value:"tomato"}}


set x to some item of {"a", "b", "c", "d", "e"}
set y to some item of {"v", "w", "x", "y", "z"}

repeat with aPair in keyValuePairs
	if (x & y) is in theKey of aPair then
		set z to value of aPair
	end if
end repeat
----

- Ken

On Sep 14, 2004, at 1:40 AM, Joseph Weaks wrote:

I figure there must be a more clever & efficient way to do this:

set x to some item of {"a", "b", "c", "d", "e"}
set y to some item of {"v", "w", "x", "y", "z"}

if (x & y) is in {"av", "bx", "bw", "bz", "dx", "ev"} then
	set z to "apple"
else if (x & y) is in {"aw", "cv", "dy", "dz", "ez"} then
	set z to "orange"
else if (x & y) is in {"ax", "cw", "cx", "ey"} then
	set z to "banana"
else if (x & y) is in {"ay", "cz", "dv", "ew"} then
	set z to "mango"
else if (x & y) is in {"az", "bv", "by", "cy", "dw", "ex"} then
	set z to "tomato"
end if

I figured coercing into one string was better than if x = "a" and y = "v" then...

My code breaks it down into many more "else if"'s. The y list in my code actually has about twice this many items.
Ideas on a better way to accomplish this?


Thanks,
Joe Weaks


P.S. Sorry for the poor topic. I could not figure out what to call this arrangement. _______________________________________________
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