Programming: The Switch and Case Conditional Statement Explained with Example

The switch statement is a conditional statement. The switch statement is like a menu, and case is like the menu option. The switch will have a variable and each case statement will have a value that this variable may be matched.

switch (Variable) { case FirstValue: //Code to execute when FirstValue is matched //... break; case SecondValue: //Code to execute when SecondValue is matched //... break; case ThirdValue: //Code to execute when ThirdValueis matched //... break; default: //Default code break; }