Question

It seems the previous developers of the current project I’m working with decided to create some working yet unmanageable code.

Throughout the code I’m finding multi-conditional ternary expressions. It’s getting to be a headache to translate and re-write/refactor them.

Does anyone know of a free tool, standalone or as an add-in for VS 2008, that can decompose ternary expressions? There’s no budget for CodeRush on this project. I’ll continue re-coding if needed, but I’m trying to have a little hope here.

Here’s an example of the issue:

sNoteType = objSelection.Items[1].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[0].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[3].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[4].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " :
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " :
    string.Empty + "LT " : 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ?
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "BA " : 
    objSelection.Items[4].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "LT " : 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "LS " : 
    objSelection.Items[3].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[4].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "LT " : 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "BA " : 
    objSelection.Items[4].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "LT " : 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "FD " : 
    objSelection.Items[0].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[3].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[4].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "LT " : 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "BA " : 
    objSelection.Items[4].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "LT " : 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "LS " : 
    objSelection.Items[3].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[4].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "LT " : 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "BA " : 
    objSelection.Items[4].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "LT " : 
    objSelection.Items[5].Selected ? 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty + "EV " : 
    objSelection.Items[2].Selected ? 
    string.Empty + "OV " : 
    string.Empty;

Answer 1

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