I am in the final stages of creating an MP4 tag parser in .Net. For those who have experience with tagging music you would be aware that there are an average of 30 or so tags. If tested out different types of loops and it seems that a switch statement with Const values seems to be the way to go with regard to catching the tags in binary.
The switch allows me to search the binary without the need to know which order the tags are stored or if there are some not present but I wonder if anyone would be against using a switch statement for so many conditionals.
Any insight is much appreciated.
EDIT: One think I should add now that where discussing this is that the function is recursive, should I pull out this conditional and pass the data of to a method I can kill?