How do you handle huge if-conditions?

Question

It\'s something that\'s bugged me in every language I\'ve used, I have an if statement but the conditional part has so many checks that I have to split it over multiple lines, u

Answer 1

Steve Mcconell's advice, from Code Complete: Use a multi-dimensional table. Each variable serves as an index to the table, and the if statement turns into a table lookup. For example if (size == 3 && weight > 70) translates into the table entry decision[size][weight_group]