[Help-glpk] Wish list - an extended "if then else" statement

[Meketon, Marc]

After the "solve" in GMPL, I wanted to display the duals of the constraints ARRIVALS, DEPARTURES using two different printf formats.

Ideally, it would have been nice to have written something like the below.  [As an aside, EVENTS is a set, but in reality I'm using the trick the Andrew showed us to sort the elements in EVENTS first by 'time' and then by 'ad', but that just complicates the example code below - however the fact that EVENTS is essentially sorted by time is why I want to interweave the 'arrivals' with the 'departures'.]

Note in the example that the each printf has 2 expressions (time and a dual), but they appear in different order.  Below is what I would have liked to have had:

for{(time,ad) in EVENTS} {
  if ad='A' then printf "dual=%3g  %5d\n", ARRIVALS[time].dual, time

  else printf "          %5d dual=%3g\n", time, DEPARTURES[time].dual;
}

but that doesn't work.  The "if" statement isn't for execution of statement blocks, but only for returning a scalar.

My workaround was messy, and looks like:

for{(time,ad) in EVENTS} {
  printf 
        if ad='A' then "dual=%3g  %5d\n" else "          %5d dual=%3g\n",
        if ad='A' then ARRIVALS[time].dual else time,
        if ad='A' then time else DEPARTURES[time].dual;
}

I would like to have the first alternative (or something like that) on a wish list of enhancements to GMPL. 

Does anyone have a more clever (and more clear) work-around?

Thank you in advance,

-Marc

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