Better control flow?

Actually this is a general question I've been wondering for a while...
As the title states, I'm looking for a better control flow statement for what I planned.
I have 4 variables that determine types of pipe in a program in my main class. There are 6 possible pipe types.
For example Type 1 would have plastic grade = 5-7, color = 2, inner reinforcement = yes etc.
My main method determines which type the client chose, (if it matched one of the types or not so if all 4 were true then it matches x type.)
It's going to get really ugly if I use ifs and I don't think using a case statement would work.
Any suggestions in what I can use?

Unless you're just referring to getting user input and using it to look up a pipe >type?That would be what I'm doing, if I could figure out how to get the input variables from my applet class to the class that sorts out which pipe they picked.
Except the variables had to be defined within a method so the try catch statments could be added to them to catch the nfe as most of them are converted from String to int.
Let me suggest you to use nested switch case to solve the problemHmm, ok, I'll look into that. Would nested ifs suffice?
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