Re: [WebDNA] SWITCH/CASE or SHOWIF
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texte = >> 1. To go through 100 different choices, is a switch/case more >> efficient or 100 showif statements more efficient? > I dunno, I would guess that one switch case is faster; at least in other > languages, when you evaluate once instead of many times, it's faster. I guess the only way to find out is to test it. >> 2. In the final generated HTML code, when 100 SHOWIF statements are >> processed, but only 1 is actually shown, the other 99 SHOWIF >> statements create line breaks. Is there a way to prevent the line >> breaks from showing up if a showif does not evaluate to true? > anywhere you don't want the line break to appear when webdna spite out > the html then just wrap it with the webdna comment tag, like this one [!] > [/!] Doesn't that prevent the DNA code from being evaluated? >> 3. Does a SWITCH/CASE statement create line breaks for all the cases >> that evaluate to false? > if it does , then try the trick I just mentioned.
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>> 1. To go through 100 different choices, is a switch/case more >> efficient or 100 showif statements more efficient? > I dunno, I would guess that one switch case is faster; at least in other > languages, when you evaluate once instead of many times, it's faster. I guess the only way to find out is to test it. >> 2. In the final generated HTML code, when 100 SHOWIF statements are >> processed, but only 1 is actually shown, the other 99 SHOWIF >> statements create line breaks. Is there a way to prevent the line >> breaks from showing up if a showif does not evaluate to true? > anywhere you don't want the line break to appear when webdna spite out > the html then just wrap it with the webdna comment tag, like this one
[!] > [/!] Doesn't that prevent the DNA code from being evaluated? >> 3. Does a SWITCH/CASE statement create line breaks for all the cases >> that evaluate to false? > if it does , then try the trick I just mentioned.
Ki Song
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