Using switch-case statements!

So I am trying to create a program that will take an integer from the user if they enter 'E' or 'e' from the menu. So my code looks like this:

Code:

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// Menu options: C, c, D, d, E, e and saves the option to user1

switch (user1)
    {
          case 'E':
                printf ("\nPlease enter an integer number: ");
                scanf ("%d", &user2);
    }

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The question is: Can I do something like...

Code:

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switch (user1)
    {
          case 'E' || case 'e'
                printf ("\nPlease enter an integer number: ");
                scanf ("%d", &user2);
    }

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If not, what might be a way of doing that but without If-Else statements?

No, you simply list them on separate lines:

Code:

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switch (user1)
    {
          case 'E':
          case 'e':
                printf ("\nPlease enter an integer number: ");
                scanf ("%d", &user2);
    }

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a better option would be to run the switch variable through toupper or tolower (your choice) before the switch (or as part of the switch) keep the code for the cases from getting cluttered.

So that means I would have to put a IF statement to check if the variable is uppercase and if it is then the switch statement should get executed assuming that im using toupper function.

No need for an if statement... Rags example works because case statements will "fall through"... until they hit a break statement...

Code:

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switch (user1)
    {
          case 'E':    // enter here
          case 'e':    // or here
                printf ("\nPlease enter an integer number: ");
                scanf ("%d", &user2);
                break;  // exit here

          //other cases go here
    }

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Experiment with it... you'll see...

Yes I experimented and it works perfectly! But I am interested in to see how I can use the tolower function here to make every input to lower case and then proceed as usual.

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Originally Posted by SimarGill

Yes I experimented and it works perfectly! But I am interested in to see how I can use the tolower function here to make every input to lower case and then proceed as usual.

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That's even simpler...

Code:

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switch (tolower(user1))
    {
          case 'e':     
                printf ("\nPlease enter an integer number: ");
                scanf ("%d", &user2);
                break;

          //other cases go here
    }

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If you don't have your compiler's library documentation, get it... there's usually a ton of really helpful information on all these functions.