Alternative to the “switch” Statement

Question

I do not want to use Switch in my code, so I\'m looking for some alternative

Example with Switch:

function write(what) {

  switch(w         


        

Answer 1

I had to do do a compare for a group sort of object props for a list and did not want to do a switch/case for all the possibilities so I did an array of objects assignment to a numeric rank first so the case became a simple compare. This is only 4 possibilities but you get the drift of how to extend this to situation where a switch/case becomes unmanageable:

function mySort2(item1,item2){

     var matrix = {  
    'repair': 4,  
    'r/r': 3,  
    'part': 2,  
    'misc': 1  
  };  

(matrix[item1.category] < matrix[item2.category]) ? return +1 : return -1;

// if possible bad data need to check for this first ???

i1=matrix[item1.category] || null;
i2=matrix[item2.category] || null;

if (i1==null){
    // handle bad data in item 1
    return +1; // put it after 2
}

if (i2==null){
    // ditto 
    return -1; //put 1 first
}

if (i1

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