Posted by Ric on 12/25/06 11:17

hackajar@gmail.com schrieb:
> If you really want it to look like a range:
>
> <?php
> $a=17;
>
> if($a >= 1 || $a <= 4 || $a == 17 || $a ==30) echo "Bingo";
> ?>

Dude that's major wrong your "if" is true for any numbers, because first:

$a >= 1

will always be true if you have a positiv number above 1. Second:

$a <= 4

any negative number including the 1 and 0 that you didn't catch with the
first rule.

The condition

$a == 17 || $a ==30


will never be reached, since they are already covered by:

$a >= 1

I think what you meant is:

if(($a >= 1 && $a <= 4) || $a == 17 || $a ==30)

right:-) Very important the brackets for condition "$a >= 1 && $a <= 4"

>
> Hackajar
> Els wrote:
>> Michael Fesser wrote:
>>
>>> .oO(KoopaJah)
>>>
>>>> A simple possibility could be to declare an array with all the values
>>>> that $a cannot take and use the in_array() function. Something like this:
>>>>
>>>> $forbiddenValues = array(1,2,3,4,17,30);
>>>> if (in_array($a, $forbiddenValues ))
>>>> {
>>>> // some code
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> But it does not allow you to define something like "all values between 1
>>>> and 4".
>>> if (in_array($a, range(1, 4))) {
>>> ...
>>> }
>> Could I mix those two things, like so:
>> $values = array(range(1, 4),17,30);
>> if (in_array($a, $values))
>> {
>> echo "bingo";
>> }
>>
>> ?
>>
>> --
>> Els http://locusmeus.com/
>

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