Your approach is workable, but I really wouldn't want to commit myself without having a much better idea of what problem we're trying to solve. In any case, I prefer to use the ternary operator '?' for single cases or occasionally double cases. Beyond that is getting a little bit too clever (but don't take that personally).

I have a feeling that either a series of if statements or a loop would solve this particular problem, but if there's a way to find out which values are more likely to occur, I would want to test for those values first.

All this arm-waving is good fun, but as I said, without having a good understanding of what the original poster's problem is, we can't offer a totally effective solution.

--t. alex
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In reply to Re: Re: Re: efficiently printing to 30 files by talexb
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