"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I've only briefly looked this over, but it seems to me that you've
> misunderstood how the switch-case/range-break-end block works.
>
> You define #switch (trigger) - which uses a variable value "trigger" for the
> rest of the case/range block to operate on.

Right; I used 1000 as the value of the 'trigger.'
>
> Then every case () or range () directive is set up to operate on a specific
> value of "trigger" or range of "trigger" values.

Yep. In my example-- and using only ONE comparison in the #case statement (no
ORs)-- #case((strcmp(IMG_TYPE,AA) + 1000)) is the 'correct' match for the
trigger... because strcmp(...) returns the number zero in this comparison,
and 0 + 1000 = 1000. Voila! That's a successful result (or so it seems!)
Alternately, strcmp{IMG_TYPE,BB) returns a numerical value of -6  (BB is
actually the string "png", not "jpg"-- and they are separated in the 'ASCII
numerical sequence' by -6 values or places or whatever.) So -6 + 1000 = 994,
which doesn't match #switch(1000)-- thus it falls through to the #else clause,
as it should.

The problem seems to be with my use of ORs in the #case; they seem to be
screwing up the results somehow. The *successful* (strcmp(IMG_TYPE,AA) + 1000))
comparison value is being ignored or overridden, or something!

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