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                <div id="content-tag"><h1 id="overview">API for <span id="namespace-name">fcase</span>
  - <span id="header-project">clojure-contrib</span> <span id="header-version">v1.2</span> (<span id="header-status">beta 1</span>)
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<span id="author-line">by <span id="author-name">Stuart Sierra</span><br /></span>
<br />Usage:
<pre>
(ns your-namespace
  (:require <span id="long-name">clojure.contrib.fcase</span>))
</pre><pre>
</pre><h2>Overview</h2>
<pre id="namespace-docstr">This file defines a generic "case" macro called "fcase" which takes
the equality-testing function as an argument.  It also defines a
traditional "case" macro that tests using "=" and variants that
test for regular expressions and class membership.


Note (December 23, 2008): This library has been supplanted by the
inclusion of "condp" in clojure.core as of Clojure SVN rev. 1180.</pre>


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<h2>Public Variables and Functions</h2>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.fcase/case">case</h2>
  <span id="var-type">macro</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (case test-value &amp; clauses)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Like cond, but test-value is compared against the value of each
test expression with =.  If they are equal, executes the "body"
expression.  Optional last expression is executed if none of the
test expressions match.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/clojure/clojure-contrib/blob/b8d2743d3a89e13fc9deb2844ca2167b34aaa9b6/src/main/clojure/clojure/contrib/fcase.clj#L79" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.fcase/fcase">fcase</h2>
  <span id="var-type">macro</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (fcase compare-fn case-value &amp; test-expr-clauses)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Generic switch/case macro.  'fcase' is short for 'function case'.

The 'compare-fn' is a fn of two arguments.

The 'test-expr-clauses' are value-expression pairs without
surrounding parentheses, like in Clojure's 'cond'.

The 'case-value' is evaluated once and cached.  Then, 'compare-fn'
is called once for each clause, with the clause's test value as its
first argument and 'case-value' as its second argument.  If
'compare-fn' returns logical true, the clause's expression is
evaluated and returned.  If 'compare-fn' returns false/nil, we go to
the next test value.

If 'test-expr-clauses' contains an odd number of items, the last
item is the default expression evaluated if no case-value matches.
If there is no default expression and no case-value matches, fcase
returns nil.

See specific forms of this macro in 'case' and 're-case'.

The test expressions in 'fcase' are always evaluated linearly, in
order.  For a large number of case expressions it may be more
efficient to use a hash lookup.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/clojure/clojure-contrib/blob/b8d2743d3a89e13fc9deb2844ca2167b34aaa9b6/src/main/clojure/clojure/contrib/fcase.clj#L40" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.fcase/in-case">in-case</h2>
  <span id="var-type">macro</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (in-case test-value &amp; clauses)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Like case, but test expressions are sequences.  The test expression
is true if any item in the sequence is equal (tested with '=') to
the test value.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/clojure/clojure-contrib/blob/b8d2743d3a89e13fc9deb2844ca2167b34aaa9b6/src/main/clojure/clojure/contrib/fcase.clj#L103" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.fcase/instance-case">instance-case</h2>
  <span id="var-type">macro</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (instance-case test-value &amp; clauses)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Like case, but the test expressions are Java class names, tested with
'instance?'.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/clojure/clojure-contrib/blob/b8d2743d3a89e13fc9deb2844ca2167b34aaa9b6/src/main/clojure/clojure/contrib/fcase.clj#L93" id="var-source">Source</a>
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  <h2 id="clojure.contrib.fcase/re-case">re-case</h2>
  <span id="var-type">macro</span><br />
  <pre id="var-usage">Usage: (re-case test-value &amp; clauses)
</pre>
  <pre id="var-docstr">Like case, but the test expressions are regular expressions, tested
with re-find.</pre>
  
  
  <a href="http://github.com/clojure/clojure-contrib/blob/b8d2743d3a89e13fc9deb2844ca2167b34aaa9b6/src/main/clojure/clojure/contrib/fcase.clj#L87" id="var-source">Source</a>
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