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Re: Number not greater or less than two limits

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On 10/09/2020 4:56 pm, Julio Di Egidio wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 September 2020 05:54:48 UTC+2, Andrew Poulos  wrote:
>> Say a number value gets calculated and if it is less than a given value
>> it gets set to that value and if it is greater than another given value
>> it gets set to that value otherwise the value is left as it is.
>>
>> For example, if a minimum is set as 3 and a maximum as 10. Then if the
>> value is 2 it becomes 3, if it is 12 it becomes 10, and if it is 7 it
>> stays as 7.
>>
>> It is easy enough to solve with a couple of if statements but I'm
>> wondering if there's a "clever" one-liner that can be used instead.
> 
> Another way to write it is Math.max(low, Math.min(high, val)),
> though I don't think it's a particularly illuminating style,
> unless you are doing some mathematical programming, i.e. in
> the context of mathematical formulas already: anyway, it's
> still implicitly doing the couple of if's, and readability
> is way more important than the number of keystrokes...

Yep, I'll stay with my if statements.

Andrew Poulos

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Number not greater or less than two limits Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2020-09-10 13:54 +1000
  Re: Number not greater or less than two limits "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2020-09-09 23:09 -0700
  Re: Number not greater or less than two limits Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2020-09-09 23:56 -0700
    Re: Number not greater or less than two limits Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2020-09-10 17:44 +1000
  Re: Number not greater or less than two limits Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2020-09-10 11:25 +0000
    Re: Number not greater or less than two limits "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-09-10 15:00 +0200
      Re: Number not greater or less than two limits "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2020-09-10 15:59 +0200
  Re: Number not greater or less than two limits Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2020-09-10 19:01 +0200
  Re: Number not greater or less than two limits John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2020-09-11 16:04 +0100

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