Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

5 Switch

In an earlier chapter, you saw one sort of conditional statement: if/else. Along the way, we discussed that if/else can be somewhat inadequate in scenarios that have more than a few conditions. This chapter looks at the switch statement. Unlike if/else, switch is ideal for handling multiple conditions. As you will see, Swift’s switch statement is an incredibly flexible and powerful feature of the language.

What Is a Switch?

if/else statements execute code based on whether the condition under consideration evaluates to true. In contrast, switch statements consider a particular value and attempt to match it against a number of cases. If there is a match, the switch executes the code associated with that case. Here ...