Thread: cases

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    cases

    Ok so I just read up on cases. I made a program that is supposed to say if something is a vowel or consonant. Its not running right for some reason. Here is the code.

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
    	char letter = 0;
    	cout << endl
    		 << "Enter a small letter: ";
    	cin >> letter;
    
    	switch(letter*(letter >= 'a' && letter <= 'z'))
    	{
    		case 'a':
    		case 'e':
    		case 'i':
    		case 'o':
    		case 'u': cout << endl << "You entered a vowel.";
    			break;
    
    		case '0': cout << endl << "that isn't a small letter!";
    			break;
    
    
    		default: cout << endl << "You entered a consonant!";
    	}
    	cout<<endl;
    	return 0;
    }
    Is there any way to make the first 5 cases run as one? And why isn't it telling caps apart from undercase?
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    Change:

    Code:
    case '0': cout << endl << "that isn't a small letter!";
        break;

    to:

    Code:
    case 0: cout << endl << "that isn't a small letter!";
        break;

    Note that in the your code, the '0' is the character 0 (not the number) while your switch statement will be looking for the number 0 if the input is not lowercase.

    As for the first 5 cases running as one... they already do. By making the change I mentioned above, the program works as expected for me.

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    What exactly is it doing. That 'letter*(...)' bit is a bit odd, but I think it will work fine. 'case '0':' ought to have no quotation marks though. Since multiplying your letter by zero will give you the value 0, not the character '0' (which has a non-0 ASCII representation).

    >> Is there any way to make the first 5 cases run as one?

    Not that I'm aware of.

    >> And why isn't it telling caps apart from undercase?

    It should be.
    The word rap as it applies to music is the result of a peculiar phonological rule which has stripped the word of its initial voiceless velar stop.

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