Grouping switch statement cases together

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I may be over looking something but is there a simple way in C   to group cases together instead of writing them out individually  I remember in basic I could just do   SELECT CASE Answer CASE 1  2  3  4   Example in C    For those that need it     include  lt iostream h gt   include  lt stdio h gt  int main        int Answer     cout  lt  lt   How many cars do you have       cin  gt  gt  Answer     switch  Answer                                                      case 1        case 2        case 3        case 4           cout  lt  lt   You need more cars              break                                                case 5        case 6        case 7        case 8           cout  lt  lt   Now you need a house              break                                                default           cout  lt  lt   What are you  A peace-loving hippie freak                   cout  lt  lt    nPress ENTER to continue       lt  lt  endl        getchar          return 0

User · Answer

AFAIK all you can do is omit the returns to make things more compact in C++:

switch(Answer)
{
    case 1: case 2: case 3: case 4:
        cout << "You need more cars.";
        break;
    ...
}

(You could remove the other returns as well, of course.)

User · Answer

No  unless you want to break compatibility and your compiler supports it

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include  lt stdio h gt  int n   2  int main          switch n                   case 0  goto  4 break            case 1  goto  4 break            case 2  goto  4 break            case 3  goto  4 break            case 4                 4                  printf  Funny and easy  n                    break            default                  printf  Search on StackOverflow  n                    break

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You can t remove keyword case  But  your example can be written shorter like this   switch   Answer - 1    4                                             case 0        cout  lt  lt   You need more cars          break                                             case 1        cout  lt  lt   Now you need a house          break                                             default        cout  lt  lt   What are you  A peace-loving hippie freak

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If you re willing to go the way of the preprocessor abuse  Boost Preprocessor can help you        include  lt boost preprocessor seq for each hpp gt        define CASE case ign  ign2  n  case n        define CASES seq            BOOST PP SEQ FOR EACH CASE case     seq       CASES  1  3  15  13     Running this through gcc with -E -P to only run the preprocessor  the expansion of CASES gives       case 1  case 3  case 15  case 13    Note that this probably wouldn t pass a code review  wouldn t where I work   so I recommend it be constrained to personal use   It should also be possible to create a CASE RANGE 1 5  macro to expand to      case 1  case 2  case 3  case 4  case 5    for you as well

User · Answer

Your example is as concise as it gets with the switch construct

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Sure you can    You can use case x     y for the range  Example     include  lt iostream h gt   include  lt stdio h gt  int main        int Answer     cout  lt  lt   How many cars do you have       cin  gt  gt  Answer     switch  Answer                                                      case 1     4           cout  lt  lt   You need more cars              break                                                case 5     8           cout  lt  lt   Now you need a house              break                                                default           cout  lt  lt   What are you  A peace-loving hippie freak                   cout  lt  lt    nPress ENTER to continue       lt  lt  endl        getchar          return 0      Make sure you have  -std c  0x  flag enabled within your compiler

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No  but you can with an if-else if-else chain which achieves the same result   if  answer  gt   1  amp  amp  answer  lt   4    cout  lt  lt   You need more cars    else if  answer  lt   8    cout  lt  lt   Now you need a house    else   cout  lt  lt   What are you  A peace-loving hippie freak      You may also want to handle the case of 0 cars and then also the unexpected case of a negative number of cars probably by throwing an exception   PS  I ve renamed Answer to answer as it s considered bad style to start variables with an uppercase letter   As a side note  scripting languages such as Python allow for the nice if answer in  1  2  3  4  syntax which is a flexible way of achieving what you want

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gcc has a so-called  case range  extension   http   gcc gnu org onlinedocs gcc-4 2 4 gcc Case-Ranges html Case-Ranges  I used to use this when I was only using gcc  Not much to say about it really -- it does sort of what you want  though only for ranges of values   The biggest problem with this is that only gcc supports it  this may or may not be a problem for you    I suspect that for your example an if statement would be a more natural fit

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You can use like this   case 4  case 2          code          For use 4 or 2 switch case

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