The switch Statement
Besides the if statement, the other conditional statement in C# is the switch statement. This statement acts much like an extended if statement; it can handle multiple tests in a single statement, checking a test expression against various values and executing code when the test expression matches one of the values you've tested it against. Here's what the switch statement looks like formally in C#:
switch (expression) { case constant-expression: statement jump-statement [default: statement jump-statement] }
Here are the parts of this statement:
expression— An integral or string type expression used to test against.
statement— The embedded statement(s) to be executed if the test expression matches the current case statement's ...
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