In an tool, it is common for certain events to only occur based on certain conditions.

you might use different types of conditional statements to handle these events.

This includes if-statements, if-else statements, switch statements, and more.

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Switch statements can be a clean way to organize a set of conditions.

you’re able to create switch statements in many programming languages, including C#.

It’s important to understand how each statement works, and when it’s most appropriate to use.

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Switch statements contain several different “cases”.

The switch statement selects a specific value, which it then compares to specific cases.

This allows you to determine which section of code the program should execute.

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If this happens, the switch statement will still run against that value.

However, since it does not match any of the cases, none of the code will execute.

you could add a default case for every other option that might occur.

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Using switch is often a cleaner and more reliable alternative to a series of if statements.

Other programming concepts that you could look into include classes or structures.

These are also important programming concepts that you’re able to use to keep your code well organized.

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