Programming case/switch clarification

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#1

Can someone please explain how cases ans switches work in programming. I seen them numerous times in programming examples and they seem significant but I do not understand them.

Thanks

#2

It’s a form of control flow statement. K&R defines it as “a special multi-way decision maker that tests whether an expression matches one of a number of constants”. There are some examples of it’s use in this thread.

int x;

// x is set to a value by some other code...

switch(x)
    {
    case 1:
        // do something
        break;

    case 2:
        // do something else
        break;

    default:
        // nothing matched so do this
        break;
    }

this part

switch( x )

compares “x” to all the different cases, if a case matches then execution starts at that point. default is executed if none of the defined cases match. The break statement causes an immediate exit from the switch.

#3