Thread: simple structure/linked list question

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    Code:
    switch (input[0]) {
                case ('a'):
                case ('A'):
                    add_to_list();
                    break;
                case ('d'):
                case ('D'):
                    delete_from_list();
                    break;
                case ('p'):
                case ('P'):
                    print_name();
                    break;
                case ('l'):
                case ('L'):
                    list_names();
                    break;
                case ('q'):
                case ('Q'):
                    free_list();
                    return (0);
                default:
                    printf ("Unknown command\n"); 
            }
    You should look into tolower(), which is in <ctype.h>. It converts a character to lowercase. You could change the above code to

    Code:
    switch (tolower(input[0])) {
                case ('a'):
                    add_to_list();
                    break;
                case ('d'):
                    delete_from_list();
                    break;
                case ('p'):
                    print_name();
                    break;
                case ('l'):
                     list_names();
                    break;
                case ('q'):
                     free_list();
                    return (0);
                default:
                    printf ("Unknown command\n"); 
            }
    dwk

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    thanks for the tip, i will definately use that next time to help reduce my lines. thanks again guys!!

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