how to use switch statement

[gnwillix88]

Try to do the following question;
Write an if statement to do the following: If char variable gender is equal to 'M' or 'm', then display "Male"; if it is equal to 'F' or 'f', then display "Female"; otherwise display "Unknown".

My code is below: but its not doing the right thing Why?

//using the switch statement
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main ( )
string person ;
char gender ;
cout << "Please enter your gender !\n";
cin >> gender;
switch (gender)
{ case 'm':
person = "male" ;
break;

case 'M':
person = "male";
break;

case 'F':
person = "female";
break;

case 'f':
person ="female";
break;
default:
person = "unknown";
}
cout << person << endl;
return 0;
}//switch.cpp

[guestgulkan]

What do you mean by - its not doing the right thing
Does it compile and run? (because if that is your actual code - I can see why)

[gnwillix88]

sorry , this was a wrong post! this very one is ok, but the one in my second post is the problem

[gcampton]

The great thing about switches is they can be used just like if/else statements, and conditionals can easily be just as long.
This would work just the same as the above you posted, because there is no 'break' for 'm' and 'f'.

   switch (gender)
   { 
      case 'm':   ; // ;

      case 'M':
         person = "male";
         break;

      case 'F':  ; // ;

      case 'f':
         person ="female";
         break;
      default:
         person = "unknown";
}