Choose Between Options

Use switch to simplify multi-branch logic.

We'll cover the following

Sometimes, your program has many options, and switch makes choosing cleaner than multiple if statements.

Goal

You’ll aim to:

  • Use switch to handle multiple cases.

  • Use break and default effectively.

  • Build simple command line menus.

Basic switch structure

This is how a basic switch structure with multiple cases works in C++:

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