How to use the select statement

• version

  1.0.0beta1

• scope

  Example.

  This code is provided as example code for a user to base their code on.

• description

  How to use the select statement

A select statement waits for one of a set of inputs to become ready, performs the selected input and then executes a corresponding body of code. Each input is proceeded by the keyword case and its body must be terminated with a break or return statement. Case statements are not permitted to contain output operations.

In this example the select statement is used to wait for either an input on chnlend_a or an input on chnlend_b. When an input is received from either channel the value of the input is printed.

select
{
        case chnlend_a :>  chnl_input_a :
                printstr("Channel Input A Received ");
                printintln(chnl_input_a);
                break;
        case chnlend_b :> chnl_input_b :
                printstr("Channel Input B Received ");
                printintln(chnl_input_b);
                break;
}