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Dear Autohotkey experts,

Is there a switch/case statement equivalent for Autohotkey?

I would like to make my code more readable, if-then-else statements are not very readable when too long.

I don't think so, but you can write your if-else code like this to improve readability:


[Edit] I did have one other idea... I think this is what's known as a kludge:

Heh, that's probably worse than the first one, though it does look more like a real case statment.

It's a planned feature for v2, which may take a while.

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nice pseudo case statement ManaUser, that looks almost like the real (not available) syntax. Your version also allows fallthrough, which is nice.

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Thanks for all your replies. Good to know it is coming out in ver2. Will be eagerly waiting.

Here is another one, versions of which have been posted to the Forum already:Here a function definition imitates a block. This one has two extra code lines, not necessary with true Switch/Case commands, but the problem with these workarounds is that you have difficulties if you need more of them in one script. The case labels are now true labels, which have to be unique in the whole script, that is, you need to keep track of unused name variants:
Another important case is selecting one of several values (expression-switch). Here is a workaround for thatYou might need another function called in the first parameter, which converts other kind of data to numbers. The drawback comes from the lack of lazy parameter evaluation in AHK: all the parameters are assigned to local variables, although only one is used, which is slow.

its no kludge!
a switch statement compiles down to that

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