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Billups138
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I am very new to DarkBASIC and this is one of many pointless things i have made, i am wondering if this is one of the best ways to make this. The game is basicly explained in the first 2 pages of it, just please help. I know the basic commands. I do not know what the "case" command is as i have seen it frequently of the "sync rate" command. Explain those if you can.

Thanks for whatever help i get, i made this game in 150 lines. (With empty lines for organization)

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Posted: 25th Mar 2011 18:46
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That works fine but yes you might use "select" and "case" to tidy it up a bit:


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Billups138
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i dont know select or case statements...

could you explain those?

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Posted: 27th Mar 2011 11:19 Edited at: 27th Mar 2011 11:22
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I will,

Select Variable means, that we're selecting that variable for checking, now: Case 1 means something like; If variable=1. So does Case 2, but it stands for 2. Example:



That's all. It will display "Our variable equals 1!" because we set myvar to 1 at the beginning. If set to 2, it will display the second text.

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Is using that method faster, or why everybody recommends it over IFTHEN all the time?
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Posted: 27th Mar 2011 12:31
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It's useful when you have something liek this:



So it's better to change it on:



It just makes the code cleaner.

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Quote: "Is using that method faster, or why everybody recommends it over IFTHEN all the time?"


It's only used for checking a single variable so if you need multiple checks like "if this and that" then IF/THEN is the way to go.

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so does that only work for integers?

or can you do this


so would that work? but also having a way to have the user change the variable

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ok, i did this in DBP and this worked



so am i getting the right idea of it?

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Yup that's exactly how it's used. There is also a default option you can add if it isn't any of the CASEs.



It's also better when dealing with strings to convert the string to lower case or higher case before you check. If a$ was from user input and they typed in "LOL" or "lOl" or "Lol" and you're checking for "lol" it won't see it as the same. Use the UPPER$() or LOWER$() commands to convert to higher case or lower case.

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thanks for reminding me how to do the lower and upper case translations, i need that to get extra credit on my hangman game

and the case and select makes perfect sense thanks to you!

and i really like that default option you can do, thanks for all the help Grog Grueslayer

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