Bug in switch statement?

Monday 30 January 2006 9:04:03 am

The switch statement in the following code doesen't seem to be able to read the declared variables:

{def $ListCourseTypesID=array()}
{def $ListCourses=array()}
{ ... building arrays ...}
{if gt($ListCourseTypesID|count(),0)}
        {foreach $ListCourses as $course}
            {set CourseTypeID= ... something ...}
            --> {$ListCourseTypesID.0} and {$CourseTypeID} are equal here <--
            {switch match=$CourseTypeID}
                {case in=$ListCourseTypesID}
                    -->Never enters here <--
                    {node_view_gui view=listitem content_node=$course}
                {/case}
            {/switch}
        {/foreach}
{/if}

However, if I change the surrounding if to a section statement, it works

{section show=$ListCourseTypesID}
        {foreach $ListCourses as $course}
            {set CourseTypeID= ... something ...}
            --> {$ListCourseTypesID.0} and {$CourseTypeID} are equal here <--
            {switch match=$CourseTypeID}
                {case in=$ListCourseTypesID}
                    -->Enters here, as expected <--
                    {node_view_gui view=listitem content_node=$course}
                {/case}
            {/switch}
        {/foreach}
{/section}

I also tried to use a simpler case statement:

{case in=$ListCourseTypesID.0}

which didn't make any difference. Tried also to use $: in the variable references. That didn't help either. This seems to be a bug? The documentation on the switch statement doesen't mention any dependency between switch and section. Looks like switch operates in a different namespace, although I haven't specified any.

I'm running ez version 3.6.2 on Linux.

Tuesday 14 February 2006 1:16:52 am

Thanks for your reply.

The reason I used switch was that it's easy to check if the match variable value exists in an array (see documentation of switch statement):
{switch match=$CourseTypeID}
{case in=$ListCourseTypesID}

I can't use an if-statement to compare $CourseTypeID and $ListCourseTypesID since one is an array and the other is a single value.

Section doesen't loop unless one uses loop=... in the section definition.

Wednesday 15 February 2006 3:14:57 pm

Ok,

but you'll have to change
{if gt($ListCourseTypesID|count(),0)}
to a loop as this line
{section show=$ListCourseTypesID}
makes the code loop thru $ListCourseTypesID

either a new 'foreach' or 'for'

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