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C#

Elijah Franklin
Elijah Franklin
882 Points
Posted by Elijah Franklin
Elijah Franklin
882 Points

I need help simplifying this code.

So I have an if statement that executes based on if certain integers meet the proper conditions, but I don't want the order of which to matter. Hopefully the code explains itself better than I can:

    if (item1 == 7 && item2 == 8 || item1 == 8 && item2 == 7)
    {
        successful = true;
        Debug.Log("Works");
    }

I'm looking for a solution now so I don't have to manually code it in the future where I'll have item1-6 and every possible order the integers could appear in...

There's probably a simple solution to this, but It has exceeded me.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,096 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,096 Points

As I understand the task, you want to check a quantity of items to be sure at least one of every value from a unique set is present in the items. So if you put the items into an array instead of separate variables, you could do this:

    let choices = [2, 3, 6, 9];  // these must all be present in "items" in any order
    successful = choices.reduce((a,x) => a && items.includes(x), true);
    if (successful) {
        // ...

This should work for any number of items & choices.