Question

I have a list of objects I must set a property based on two criteria the 2D grid looks like this:

Property 2\Property 1   B<80        80<B<100       100<B<120           B>120
A < 100                 None          Red           Orange            Orange
100 < A < 120           None          Red           Orange             Green
120 < A < 140           None          Red           Green              Green
140 < A                 None         Orange         Green              Green

Is there a good way to loop Property 1 and Property 2 to dynamically set the object property? It is a possibility that in the future we add few criteria and I guess that doing multiple ifs isn’t a good solution. I’m trying to avoid redundant code.

Thanks

Answer 1

If we could convert the 2 conditions for A and B into a system with a scale of 0-3:
if A<100 -> Ascale = 0
else if A<120 -> Ascale = 1
etc.
and for B:
if B<80 -> Bscale = 0
else if B<100 -> Bscale = 1
etc.

Then we could use a 2d array for looking up the correct output response:
out = arrayname[Ascale][Bscale];

But I don’t think this saves anything over simply hard-coding it as ifs, when only the possibility of a few extra ones, I think that hard-coding is the best solution for this.