Using a switch Statment with 30 Conditionals

[DeanMc]

I am in the final stages of creating an MP4 tag parser in .Net. For those who have experience with tagging music you would be aware that there are an average of 30 or so tags. If tested out different types of loops and it seems that a switch statement with Const values seems to be the way to go with regard to catching the tags in binary.

The switch allows me to search the binary without the need to know which order the tags are stored or if there are some not present but I wonder if anyone would be against using a switch statement for so many conditionals.

Any insight is much appreciated.

[techgnome]

No... that's precisely the best use for a switch statement... certainly better than the alternative If statements...

-tg

[DeanMc]

Cool, now to the crooks, what about if this switch resides in a recursive function?

[DeanMc]

My second thought was to do this:

1 Create an object that holds the "binary tag name", "Data", "Property Name".
2 Create a list of these totaling the amount of tags known adding the tag name and property name.
3 When parsing use linq to match the found name with the object.binarytagname and add the data
4 reflect into the property and add the data...