I seem to be having trouble using a conditional OR statement in my code.
Hopefully someone can point out my error.
In one of my controllers I have the following statement:
if @thisVar == (0||1||6)
dosomething
end
But this won’t work. Instead, I end up having to do this:
if @thisVar == 0
dosomething
elsif @thisVar == 1
dosomething
elsif @thisVar == 6
dosomething
end
Which is of course, redundant code, since the same “dosomething” gets
typed 3 times.
I have had this same problem in .rhtml code, when I use something like:
<% if @thisVar == (0||1||6) %><%= dosomething %><% end %>
In looking at the Ruby documentation for conditional statements, I have
seen code like this with the explanation that it works. What am I doing
wrong?
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I seem to be having trouble using a conditional OR statement in my code.
Hopefully someone can point out my error.
In one of my controllers I have the following statement:
if @thisVar == (0||1||6)
dosomething
end
I think what you might be trying to do is: if @thisVar =~ /0|1|6/
The | notation for doing an OR is a regular expression thing. You need
to use =~
and enclose your pattern in /…/ to get the regex stuff to work.
If you prefer the list option posted by others, that will work as well.
But I
think the regex pattern match might be a little faster than building a
list and
running a .include. Although it probably doesn’t matter for three
integer values…
