How do you handle huge if-conditions?

Question

It\'s something that\'s bugged me in every language I\'ve used, I have an if statement but the conditional part has so many checks that I have to split it over multiple lines, u

Answer 1

Well, first off, why not:

if (var1 && var2 && var2 && var3 && var4 && var5 && var6) {
...

Also, it's very hard to refactor abstract code examples. If you showed a specific example it would be easier to identify a better pattern to fit the problem.

It's no better, but what I've done in the past: (The following method prevents short-circuiting boolean testing, all tests are run even if the first is false. Not a recommended pattern unless you know you need to always execute all the code before returning -- Thanks to ptomato for spotting my mistake!)

boolean ok = cond1;
ok &= cond2;
ok &= cond3;
ok &= cond4;
ok &= cond5;
ok &= cond6;

Which is the same as: (not the same, see above note!)

ok = (cond1 && cond2 && cond3 && cond4 && cond5 && cond6);