A statement at the end of the last case in switch statement

[gcampton]

As for you question why use a switch? there are cases you will want to use a switch and only have some but not all cases break, some you will want to continue and execute the next case of commands.
edit: However this is completely irrelevant.

What do you mean by iterate? I'm not iterating in my code.

[j3bk4iN6]

ok thanks, sorry if I seem a little argumentative.

[gcampton]

with switch statements, lets pretend the conditional is an integer and is 1.

lets say our switch looks like this:

switch(opt)
	{
	case 1: 
		//... do some stuff
	case 2: 
		//... do some more
	case 3: opt++; break;
		//...
        case 4: 
                // do something else
        case 5:
               // do some more
               break;
    default: 
           errorCode();
	}

in the case of 1, it will execute commands in 1 2 and 3, the condition is not read for the other cases, the commands are simply executed.
in the case of 2, it will execute commands 2 and 3.
in the case of 3, it will execute commands in 3.
in the case of 4, will execute 4 and 5.
in the case of 5, will execute 5.
in the case of something else will execute errorCode which happens to be a function that prints out an error to log and exits the program.

There's nothing wrong with using a switch statement to achieve this. Although it may seem awkward and hard to follow...

[j3bk4iN6]

then why not put the comands 1 2 and 3 in case 1:
and commands 4 5 in case 3:

I guess its up to the programmer if it makes code easier to read, or the commands are longer.

[gcampton]

well in that case then you would need to have repeat calls depending on the input:
so if we go by what your saying it would look like this:

if (opt == 1)
   doCMD1();
   doCMD2();
   doCMD3();
else if (opt == 2)
   doCMD2();
   doCMD3();
else if (opt == 3)
   doCMD3();
else if (opt == 4)
   doCMD4();
   doCMD5();
else if (opt == 5)
   doCMD5();
else
   doErrorOut_Exit();

really what I just wrote is no different to the switch, but in the case of 3 I don't want command 1 and 2 executed only 3.

[j3bk4iN6]

Oh I see, thanks for your patience

[Quentin]

gcampton wrote:

the last case whether that be default, or case 27387237, needs to have a command, function, or break something anything that does something... It CANNOT BE BLANK.

Thx a lot, now I get it :)