Thread: Switch Case help(Using OR)

Originally Posted by Orcus

is there a way to use OR and put all those vowels in one line rather than 5 different?

Yes, use an if statement instead of a switch, with || for "or". Of course, you might still break it up into multiple physical lines of code for formatting purposes, but it'll be one logical line of code.

You mean like one line like so?
case 'a': case 'e': case 'i': case 'o': case 'u':

Also, main returns int, not void.

Also, conio.h has been obsolete for the last 25+ years.

stdio.h is part of standard C.
conio.h is as obsolete as DOS (before your time - it was microsoft's 16-bit command line OS from the 1980's).

At least you know now that your teacher isn't as up to date as you previously thought.
Watch out for these other tell tale signs that they really don't know what they're talking about.
- using fflush(stdin) to clean up the input buffer.
- using gets(buffer) to read a line of input.


> And that is an interesting way to write the switch statement
C for the most part doesn't care about white space or newlines, so long as the result is unambiguous.
So

Code:

switch(ch)
{
case 'a':
case 'e':
case 'i':
case 'o':
case 'u':
            printf("Vowel.");
            break;
default:
            printf("Consonant.");
            break;
}

and

Code:

switch(ch) {
case 'a': case 'e': case 'i': case 'o': case 'u': printf("Vowel."); break;
default: printf("Consonant."); break;
}

are equivalent.