Question

differentiate between if and switch statements?

Answer 1

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-- if statement

• It is used to control the flow of execution of statements in a program based on some conditions or abruptly.
• It a a two-way decision making statement.
• It has two paths to follow : (1) True condition (2) False condition.

-- Switch Statement

• It is a multiple way decision making statement.
• It compare with each case value until a match is found, or default, or end is encountered, if the matching is found the execution continues with its statement and goes sequentially forward.
• In this, we can use int, long and char data types for integral expression.