From: Chris Mears <cmears AT bigpond DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: SV: switch
Organization: only if absoultely necessary
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On Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:46:25 GMT, that hoopy frood Fredrik Persson
scribbled the following:

>it isnt hard at all u do the same:
>
>string answer;
>switch(answer)
>{
>case "alt 1":
>cout<<"bla bla";
>break;
>
>and so on...

Not quite.

[...]
switch.cc:9: switch quantity not an integer
switch.cc:10: case label `"alt 1"' does not reduce to an integer
constant

The switch construct only works with integral types.

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Chris Mears
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