Number limit of Else If statements

[Michelle Logan]

OOPS, have just realized I posted this in the wrong area. I was reading a calculation post and forgot where I was.

Is there a limit on how many Eles If statments a script can have (I dont think a Case Statement will work for our project).

If I have counted correctly we will have about 20 Else If statments.

If 20 is not a problem, then just for a reference, is there a limit? We run a Filemaker Server 11 and Filemaker 11 Pro on our workstations (not sure if there was a limit based on version).

Michelle

[comment]

I am not aware of any such limit. If there were one, it would be more likely of how many steps can you have in a script - regardless of what those steps are. However, no such limit is listed in the tech spec.

[Michelle Logan]

Thank you for the reply. That would make sense as to the number of script steps rather than a specific script step.

ML

[Fitch]

When a script has that many Else If statements, I start to wonder if it would be easier to maintain as a group of smaller scripts rather than one giant script. Depends on its purpose, of course.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_object

[Michelle Logan]

Wow, I never even thought of that. I think that may be a cleaner solution for our schools database.

[Fitch]

It's arguably a matter of programming style, but I gravitate toward the style of manageable chunks of code, also called "what happens if I get hit by a bus?"