Switch statement using or

Question

I'm creating a console app and using a switch statement to create a simple menu system. User input is in the form of a single character that displays on-screen as a capital letter. However, I do want the program to accept both lower- and upper-case characters.

I understand that switch statements are used to compare against constants, but is it possible to do something like the following?

switch(menuChoice) {     case ('q' || 'Q'):         //Some code         break;     case ('s' || 'S'):         //More code         break;     default:         break; } 

If this isn't possible, is there a workaround? I really don't want to repeat code.

Answer 1

This way:

 switch(menuChoice) {     case 'q':     case 'Q':         //Some code         break;     case 's':     case 'S':         //More code         break;     default:  } 

More on that topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_statement#C.2C_C.2B.2B.2C_Java.2C_PHP.2C_ActionScript.2C_JavaScript