C Switch Statement

The switch statement in C is an alternative to if-else-if ladder statement, which allows to execute multiple operations for the different possible values of a single variable which is called as switch variable. We can define various statements in the multiple cases for the different values of a single variable.

The syntax of switch statement in C language is represented as,

switch(expression) {

case value1:

//code to be executed

break;

case value2:

//code to be executed

break;

case 3:

//code to be executed

break;

default:

//code to be executed, if all the above cases are completely wrong

}