Is There Something Similar In C?

[LindisfarneBabe]

I'm totally new to programming, so please be gentle with me. So far I've been learning Pascal for about 12 weeks and have just started on C (The language of linux at last!).

In Pascal there's a thing called the 'case statement', which is very usefull with menues. Does anyone know if there's a similar thing in C and if so what it's called please?

Thanks for any help. - Lindi

[Skroob]

Yeah its called the switch statement.

[LindisfarneBabe]

Thanks Skroob, I've just had a look in the book and the switch statement is exactly what I want.

Thank you - Lindi.

[Sterling]

Although the switch statement is a good deal more powerful. You can impliment simple OR logic with something like this:

switch (someint)
{
case 1:
case 2:
case 3:
/* Do some stuff */
break;
case 4:
case 5:
case 6:
case 42:
/* Do some other stuff */
break;
}


Since case blocks "fall through" if they don't encounter a break, something like that is possible. Kind of hard to read, but possible.

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