Switch -- How to specify interval of cases?

Hi, I am writing a SWITCH statement, but I need each case to be chosen for an interval of the switch variable. I'd think this should be obvious, but I'm a bit lost. I know I can specify multiple values in the '{}', but I have too many to specify one by one. How can I incorporate something like case '1:100' ?

Here's an example of what I am trying to accomplish

switch i
  case 1:100
    statement
  case 101:200
    statement
end

I tried with {[1:100]} and various variations, but to no avail. I suppose I can create an if statement assigning a 'j' variable to 1 if 1<=i<=100 and then switch over j (so it would be case 1 and case 2), but that seems a bit too inefficient!

Any help?

thank you!

Answer 1

[G A]

switch i
  case num2cell(1:100)
    statement
  case num2cell(101:200)
    statement
end

[Martin]

doh..!

thank you

Answer 2

[Mark Brandon]

Much cleaner solution is to set switch to true. I use this approach all the time given that the "switch" construction is easier to read than the "if then else" construction.

For the example here:

switch true
   case any(i==1:100)
       statement
   case any(i==101:200)
       statement
end

[Walter Roberson]

Variants that can be more efficient:

switch true
  case ismember(i, 1:100)
    statement
  case i>=101 && i<=200
    statement
end

Answer 3

[Martin]

..ok, in fact I can do what I need with if:

if (i>=1)&&(i<=100)
  statement
elseif (i>=101)&&(i<=200)
  statement
end

Is there no way of doing this with SWITCH?