[Lazarus] Easiest way to "case" strings

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Alexander Klenin schrieb:

>> Can anyone say why there is no string case statement in Object Pascal?  I've
>> always wondered about this as sometimes it hard to avoid 10-20 If..then..else
>> if.... statements.
> 
> I'd say it is because nobody contributed it ;-)

There exist too many options with string comparison. In a table lookup 
the compare method can be supplied by the application, in a case 
statement this would require another syntax extension.

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