Thread: Me and my 2.8+ million lines of code

You can't.
char[256] is a pointer to a char, and if you did a switch, you would be checking the address of a char (the 1st element of an array of chars). So input would be interpreted as something like 23847981 (the address of the first char), instead of whatever the user typed in. You could do:

Code:

switch(*input)
{
}

But that would only check the first letter of input, so you still have to use strcmp(input, "asdf") to check the input of a string.

i guess im asking for how exactly strcmp would look in that. All I can do with strcmp is

Code:

if (!strcmpi("n", command) || !strcmpi("no", command))

and i have no idea how it would fit into a switch statement

Hmm, not sure what you're asking, but it would be easier to just check if the first letter is 'n', since that's pretty similar to what you're doing:

Code:

if(command[0] == 'n')

easy money....

Switch case statement are like if statements, except easier to handle multiple stats with one char, int, flaot, etc.

like:

Code:

int choice;
cin >> choice;
switch (choice)
{
   case '1' : cout << "you choose 1\n";
   break;
   case '2' : cout << "You choose 2\n";
   break;
   defualt : cout << "please press a real button\n";
   break;
}

opposed to:

Code:

if (choice == '1')
{
 cout << "You choose 1\n";
}

else if (choice == '2')
{
 cout << "You choose 2\n");
}

else 
{
  cout << "please press a real key\n";
}

See? Hope that helps.

Sorry, didn't see the previous coding here...

By the way:

Code:

int choice;
cin >> choice;
switch (choice)
{
   case 1 : cout << "you choose 1\n";
   break;
   case 2 : cout << "You choose 2\n";
   break;
   defualt : cout << "please press a real button\n";
   break;
}

The quotes would screw up the result, 'cuz then it would check for the ascii values of '1', '2', while the input stored in choice is in integer form.

if i dont have the ' ' around it it get errors.

Then something must be screwy with your compiler... putting ' ' around the letter only changes the letter into an ascii value, which is an int anyways. Besides, what error are you getting?

But what If im not entering an integer? Then

case 1 doesnt mean anything

Code:

char input;
cin >> input;

switch(input)
{
      case 'n':
                  cout << "You pressed n";
                  break;
      case 'p':
                 cout << "You pressed p";
                 break;
      default:
                 cout << "You didn't press n or p";
}

switch statements can only deal with ints or chars, no arrays or floats.

oh - someone should write a tutorial that explains that, thanks

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