Need help with ifs and cases structure!

[Heyman123]

Can someone explain the difference between ifs and cases to me. Also the benefits of using each one specifically.

[ericfourfour]

Use ifs when you are comparing more than one variable. Use cases when you are comparing different values of a specific variable.

[Cervantes]

case is really just a specific application of if. You can do everything you can do with case with if. Case just sometimes happens to provide a more compact notation for you.

Isn't it true that with case, you can only compare using equality? For example, you can't use case to compare your integer variable num to the values 5, 6, and anything greater than 6?

[Clayton]

Cervantes is correct, however, it makes comparing a random integer much easier:

Turing:

case Rand.Int (1, 10) of     label 1 :         %blah     label 2 :         #bleh     %etc etc end case

as opposed to saving that value in some temporary variable and having to continually compare the value of it.