Published by: Nuru
Published date: 21 Jun 2021
The Switch Statement is a multi-directional condition control statement. Sometimes there is a need in the program to make choices among a number of alternatives. For making this choice, we use the switch statements.
The same task can be performed using an if-else ladder as well but as the number of alternatives increases, the selection process becomes more complex (more time-consuming). The main difference between the if-else ladder and switch statement is: In if-else ladder selection of appropriate option is made in serial fashion whereas in a switch-case it is done in a parallel fashion. So the switch statement is much faster than the if-else ladder. The switch statement body consists of a series of case labels and an optional default label. The default label can appear only once and anywhere in the body of the switch statement.
switch (expression)
{
case constant1:
statement 1;
break;
case constant2:
statement 2;
break;
case constant3:
statement 3;
break;
default:
statement;
}
Write a program to print the day of the week according to the number entered 1 for Sunday ……..7 for Saturday.
#include
#include
void main()
{
int num;
clrscr();
printf("Enter a number\n");
scanf("%d",&num);
switch(num)
{
case 1:
printf("Sunday");
break;
case 2:
printf("Monday");
break;
case 3:
printf("Tuesday");
break;
case 4:
printf("Wednesday");
break;
case 5:
printf("Thusday");
break;
case 6:
printf("Friday");
break;
case 7:
printf("Saturday");
break;
default:
printf("Wrong input");
}
getch();
}
Output:
Write a program to perform arithmetic calculation based on the operators entered by user.
+ for addition, - for subtraction, * for multiplication, / for division and % for remainder.
#include
#include
void main()
{
int a,b;
char op;
clrscr();
printf("Enter operator\n");
scanf("%c",&op);
printf("Enter two numbers\n");
scanf("%d%d",&a,&b);
switch(op)
{
case '+':
printf("Sum =%d",a+b);
break;
case '-':
printf("Difference =%d",a-b);
break;
case '*':
printf("Product =%d",a*b);
break;
case '/':
printf("Quotient =%d",a/b);
break;
case '%':
printf("Remainder =%d",a%b);
break;
default:
printf("Wrong operator");
}
getch();
}
Output:
