Alternative to if, else if

Question

I have a lot of if, else if statements and I know there has to be a better way to do this but even after searching stackoverflow I\'m unsure of how to do so in my particular cas

Answer 1

There are several approaches to do this, but for the reason of simplicity, conditional operator may be a choice:

Func contains=x => {
    return txtvar.BillText.IndexOf(x)>-1;
};

txtvar.Provider=
    contains("SWGAS.COM")?"Southwest Gas":
    contains("georgiapower.com")?"Georgia Power":
    contains("City of Austin")?"City of Austin":
    // more statements go here 
    // if none of these matched, txtvar.Provider is assigned to itself
    txtvar.Provider;

Note the result is according to the more preceded condition which is met, so if txtvar.BillText="City of Austin georgiapower.com"; then the result would be "Georgia Power".