Can Objective-C switch on NSString?

Question

Is there a more intelligent way to rewrite this?

if ([cardName isEqualToString:@\"Six\"]) {
    [self setValue:6];
} else if ([cardName isEqualToString:@\"Se         


        

Answer 1

There are other ways to do that, but switch isn't one of them.

If you only have a few strings, as in your example, the code you have is fine. If you have many cases, you could store the strings as keys in a dictionary and look up the corresponding value:

NSDictionary *cases = @{@"Six" : @6,
                        @"Seven" : @7,
                        //...
                       };

NSNumber *value = [cases objectForKey:cardName];
if (value != nil) {
    [self setValue:[value intValue]];
}