Make a short if statement

Question

In my code I have this if statement:

if (categoryName == "SomeName1" || categoryName == "SomeName2" || 
    categoryName == "SomeName3" || categoryName == "SomeName4" || 
    categoryName == "SomeName5" || categoryName == "SomeName6") {
    // Do something
}

I was wondering if I could shorten this if. Something like:

if (categoryName == "SomeName1" and "SomeName2" and "SomeName3" ...) {
    // Do something
}

Is there any aproach to do something like this in Kotlin?

Answer 1

You can use a when statement. The syntax kind of looks like what you were asking for:

when (categoryName) {
    "SomeName1", "SomeName2",  "SomeName3", "SomeName4", "SomeName5", "SomeName6" -> // Do something
}