Controlling program flow and case statements

[Phredrick Dobbs]

Hey all, I was wondering, I if I have 40 nested case statements and I want the program to close after they are all done, is it sufficient to wire the "?" for both true and false of the outermost case to the close routine in order to guarantee that all of them will execute? Or is there an even better way using data flow methods?

-Dobbs

[Doug (CapeFl)]

A simple and sure way is to use a Sequence structure - 1st sequence is the cases, 2nd sequence is the exit.
Doug

[Gorka Larrea]

I'd recommend state machines better than that way or sequences, to controll dataflow better. Example is attached.

[Dennis_Knutson]

imho, 40 nested case statements is too many by about a factor of 10. I think anything like this becomes impossible to maintain. State machines can be used much more effectively. If you use strings or enums as inputs to drive the state machine, they are also easier to document.

[Phredrick Dobbs]

Oh I agree. I was just coming up with an extreme example 🙂

Thanks,
-Dobbs