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    Not sure what the best way to handle this task is.

    I have a problem I am attempting to handle. What I have is a 6 Boolean's and I need to check the state of each of those against their current value in another method, and if any of them are different then I need to send them all at once to a different method. I was thinking it would look something like this:

    Code:
    checkTheState()
    {
      
      bool hasChanged = false;
    
      if(boolOne != boolOneCurrentState())
      {
        hasChanged = true;
      }
      if(boolTwo != boolTwoCurrentState())
      {
        hasChanged = true;
      }
    ...
    ...
    ...
      if(boolSix != boolSixCurrentState())
      {
        hasChanged = true;
      }
    
      if(hasChanged == true)
      {
        acceptNewParams(boolOne, boolTwo, boolThree ... boolSix)()
      }
    }
    which I believe would work but it seems rather elementary, and I am guessing there is probably a better way of doing it. Is this method elementary? Is there a more concise, and "nicer" way of doing this kind of operation?
    Last edited by Circuits; January 27th, 2021 at 12:51 PM.

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    Re: Not sure what the best way to handle this task is.

    Just add "else" to all but the first "if"!
    And don't compare bool value with true.
    like
    Code:
    checkTheState()
    {
      
      bool hasChanged = false;
    
      else if(boolOne != boolOneCurrentState())
      {
        hasChanged = true;
      }
      else if(boolTwo != boolTwoCurrentState())
      {
        hasChanged = true;
      }
    ...
    ...
    ...
      else if(boolSix != boolSixCurrentState())
      {
        hasChanged = true;
      }
    
      if(hasChanged)
      {
        acceptNewParams(boolOne, boolTwo, boolThree ... boolSix)()
      }
    }
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    Re: Not sure what the best way to handle this task is.

    Quote Originally Posted by Circuits View Post
    Is there a more concise, and "nicer" way of doing this kind of operation?
    I would use one of these, probably the first,
    Code:
    void checkTheState() {
    	const bool hasChanged =
    		(boolOne != boolOneCurrentState()) ||
    		(boolTwo != boolTwoCurrentState()) ||
    			...
    		(boolSix != boolSixCurrentState()); 
    
    	if (hasChanged) {
    		acceptNewParams(boolOne, boolTwo, ..., boolSix);
    	}
    }
    
    void checkTheState() {
    	if ((boolOne != boolOneCurrentState()) ||
    		(boolTwo != boolTwoCurrentState()) ||
    			...
    		(boolSix != boolSixCurrentState())) 
    	{ 
    		acceptNewParams(boolOne, boolTwo, ..., boolSix);
    	}
    }
    The || is the logical-OR operator.
    Last edited by wolle; January 28th, 2021 at 04:27 AM.

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    Re: Not sure what the best way to handle this task is.

    The first fundamental question is - why 6 individual bool variables? Why not have say an uint8_t variable where each bit represents a specific state. It's easy to check/set a particular bit and to test if two are equal etc.
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