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Is there an equivalent of the switch function, but for strings?

The usual is, you insert an integer, and one of the cases is executed depending on the integer, is there a similar function but instead of an integer i can insert a string?

25th Nov 2020, 11:02 PM
Nemanja Boskovic
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With strings you'd use if-else if-else along with strcmp(str1, str2)==0 (case sensitive) Where each if or else if would be similar to a case and the else block would be similar to default. Note that, of course, there is no use of a break statement here nor will there be any fall through to the next case. char str[] = "Hello"; if (strcmp(str, "hello")==0) { ... // not a match } else if (strcmp(str, "heLLo")==0) { ... // not a match } else if (strcmp(str, "hEllO")==0) { ... // not a match } else if (strcmp(str, "Hello")==0) { ... // match } else { ... // default } https://www.programiz.com/c-programming/library-function/string.h/strcmp
25th Nov 2020, 11:33 PM
ChaoticDawg
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FWIW... If you've not been exposed to other languages yet, switch is much more flexible in other languages.
26th Nov 2020, 3:28 AM
David Carroll
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I wrote a code, but in the meantime they answered you. I post it the same. edit: maybe it's worth to tell you that in case the compared strings are identical, strcmp returns 0. So the if( !strcmp ) is entered only if the strings match. https://code.sololearn.com/cDzxGwSIb40n/?ref=app
25th Nov 2020, 11:46 PM
Davide
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