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iOS Swift Collections and Control Flow Control Flow With Conditional Statements The Power of Switching

Adrian Yao
Adrian Yao
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Posted by Adrian Yao
Adrian Yao
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Can you define the switch statement?

What does the value in parenthesis

switch ( ) { }

mean?

1 Answer

james south
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the parens hold the value the switch evaluates to determine which case or path the code should take, so if for instance you were going to switch on the 7 days of the week, the variable holding the day would go in the parens and then depending on its value a particular case would be chosen.