Consider a pseudo code of this format:
if(condition-1 || condition-2 || condition-3) {
run these statements;
}
I need to determine which of my three conditions turned out true and hence the inner statements ran. I know switch-case is an alternative to do this but yet I wanted to accomplish through an if statement.
You would need either a switch or multiple ifs if you want to identify the specific condition(s) that is true.
function check(x){
let which;
if((which=-1, x==-1) || (which=-2, x==-2) || (which=-3, x==-3)){
return which;
}
}
Would this work for you?
@KamilCybulski - How does the comma between the two assignments work. I have not seen this before. You can just refer me to a related link for me to read. Thanks.
@rmdawson71 Check out MDN
Basically, to give you a picture
expression1, expression2
will evaluate both expression, but return only expression2
. Obviously the solution I provided could’ve been written more gracefully, depending on how exactly if
statement is used, but it should picture the idea.
OK, now I understand. It is little cryptic, but could come in handy for shortening code.
Thanks
Honestly, it would really depend on what type of conditions you are talking about. Do you have an example you can paste into a reply, so we can see what you are comparing. @KamilCybulski’s answer would work if you are checking if a variable is equal to something else, but not other situations.
Another way similar to @KamilCybulski’s answer for when checking whether a variable is equal to a certain value could be done with an Object.
function check(x){
return {'-1':-1, '-2':-2, '-3':-3}[x];
}
check(-2) // results in -2
@rmdawson71 I am just comparing the “innerHTML” of a few elements against a specific value. So yeah! its a simple comparison. I am just gonna try both the suggestions I got from you as well as from @KamilCybulski. Hopefully, it works! And, thank a lot for giving time in responding to this.