Programming Fundamental

Instructor Name: Mohabbat Ali

Lecture-7
 Today’s Lecture

 Decision Making (Continue)

 Switch Statement

 Switch Statement Rules

 Break Statement

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Example
 A company insures driver in the following case
 if driver is married
 If the driver is unmarried, male and above 30 years of age
 If the driver is unmarried, female and above 25 years of age

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int main() {
char gender,ms;
int age;
cout<< "enter age , gender, marital status";
cin>>age>>gender>>ms;
if(ms=='M')
cout<<"driver is insured";
else {
if(gender=='M') {
if(age>30)
cout<<“Dri
ver is
insure
d";
else
cout<<“Driv
er is
not
insure
d";
} 4
else {
Decision Making - Use of Logical Operators

main() {

char gender,ms;
int age;
cout<< "enter age , gender, marital status";
cin>>age>>gender>>ms;

if( ( ms=='M ‘)|| (ms=='U'&& gender=='M' && age>30)||

(ms=='U' && gender=='F' &&
age>25)) cout<<"Driver is

insured";
else
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cout<<"driver is not insured";
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Switch Structure
 All the problem we discussed so far, we see that there are two approaches
for a multi way decision.
 In the first approach, we use as many if statements as needed. This is an
expensive approach.
 The second is the use of nested if statements. Which is little more efficient
than the first one.
 In the 'nested if statements' the nested else is not executed if the first
if condition is true and the control goes out of the if block.
 The C++ language provides us a stand-alone construct to handle these
instances.
 This construct is switch structure.

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Switch Structure
 The switch structure is a multiple-selection construct that is used in such
cases (multi way decisions) to make the code more efficient and easy to
read and understand.
 A switch statement allows a variable to be tested for equality against a list
of values.
 Each value is called a case, and the variable being switched on is checked
for each case.
 if a case label matches, the statements after the case label are executed.
 If no case label matches the switch expression, the code under the
default label is executed (if it exists).

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Switch Structure
 The Syntax for switch statement is as follow
switch(expression){
case constant-expression :
statement(s);
break; //optional
case constant-
expression :
statement(s);
break; //optional
//any number of
case statements.
default :
//Optional
statement(s); 8
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Switch Structure[Flow Chart]

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Switch Structure [ RULES]

 The expression used in a switch statement must have an integral or
enumerated type, or be of a class type in which the class has a
single conversion function to an integral or enumerated type.
 You can have any number of case statements within a switch. Each case is
followed by the value to be compared to and a colon.
 The constant-expression for a case must be the same data type as the
variable in the switch, and it must be a constant or a literal.
 When the variable being switched on is equal to a case, the statements
following that case will execute until a break statement is reached.

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Switch Structure [ RULES]

 When a break statement is reached, the switch terminates, and the flow of
control jumps to the next line following the switch statement.
 Not every case needs to contain a break. If no break appears, the flow of
control will fall through to subsequent cases until a break is reached.
 A switch statement can have an optional default case, which must appear
at the end of the switch.
 The default case can be used for performing a task when none of the
cases is true. No break is needed in the default case.

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Switch Implementation
Write a program that has a switch structure. The switch structure will check
different cases for grades. Implement your switch structure as follows
 If grade is A then display “Excellent”
 If grade is B or C then display “Well Done”
 If grade is D the display “You passed”
 If grade is F then display “You are Fail”

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main ()
{ char grade ;
switch(grade) {
case
'A' :
cout << "Excellent!\n";
break;
case 'B' :
case 'C' :
cout << "Well done\n";
break;
case 'D' :
cout << "You passed\n“;
break;
case 'F' :
cout << “You are Fail\
n"; break;
default :
cout << "Invalid grade\ 17
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Switch Implementation
 We will see the use of ' the letter a' instead of 'A' can affect our program.
 We want our program to be user- friendly. We don’t want to restrict the
user to enter the grade in capital letters only. So we have to handle both
small and capital letters in our program.
 Here comes the limitations of switch statement.
 We have to make two separate cases so we write
case ‘A’:
case ‘a’ :
statements
;

Home Activity:
Rewrite Code

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Break Statement
 The break statement interrupts the flow of control.
 In switch statement, when a true case is found, the flow of control goes
through every statement down ward.
 We want that only the statements of true case should be executed and the
remaining should be skipped.
 For this purpose, we write the break statement after the statements of a
case. Thus, when a true case is found and its statements are executed
then the break statement interrupts the flow of control and the control
jumps out of the switch statement.

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Break Statement
 If we want to do the same task for two cases, like in previous example for
‘A’ and ‘a’, then we don't put break statement after the first case.
 We write both the cases (or the cases may be more than two) line by line
then write the common statements to be executed for these cases and
then write the break statement.
 The break statement is necessary in switch structure, without it the switch
structure becomes illogic. As without it all the statement will execute after
first match case is found.

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Switch Statement Example

Switch(age>=18)
{
case true:
cout<<“you can cast your vote”<<endl;
break;
case false:
cout<<“you can not cast your
vote”<<endl;
}

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Switch Statement Example

If alpha input is 5 , what will be alpha value after processing
cin>>alpha;
switch (alpha) {
case 1:
case 2:
alpha = alpha + 2;
break;
case 4:
alpha++;
case 5:
alpha = 2 *
alpha; case 6:
alpha =
alpha + 5; break;
default:
alpha--;
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Switch Statement Example

If alpha input is 6 , what will be alpha value after processing
cin>>alpha;
if(a>0)
switch (alpha) {
case 1:
alpha = alpha + 3;
case 3:
alph
a++;
break;
case 6:
alph
a=
alpha +
6;
case 8:
alpha = alpha * 8; 24
default:
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Practice Problem
 Write a program that prompts the user to enter two numbers and one
“Arithmetic Operator”. The program will perform arithmetic operation on
the number according the arithmetic operator and display result.
 You have to use switch statement.

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