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switch Statements

if and else...if combinations can become quite confusing when nested deeply, and C++ offers an alternative. Unlike if, which evaluates one value, switch statements enable you to change control flow based on any of a number of different values for an expression. The general form of the switch statement is

switch (expression)
{
   case constantexpression1:
					statement; break;
   case constantexpression2:
					statement; break;
   ....
   case constantexpression3:
					statement; break;
   default: statement;
}

expression is any legal C++ expression resulting in a character or other simple result (such as int or float), and the statements are any legal C++ statements or blocks.

switch evaluates expression and compares the result to each of the case constantexpression ...