CSC 5750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Switch Statement, Associative Array
8 Nov 2018
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One statement, curly braces are not required. More than one statement, curly braces are required. A block is a set of one or more statements. An if statement has one or more conditions and one or more execution paths. Conditions are constructed from relational and logical operators. If a condition is true, the block following it is executed. If a condition is false, the if statement either: The switch statement is an limited alternative to the if statement. A switch statement has an expression that is tested against one or more cases. The data type of the expression is typically number or string. If a following else block exists, it is executed. If a following else if condition exists, it is tested. A switch statement may be easier to read when there are more than three conditions to test. A switch statement may have a default case that will run if all other case tests are false.
