So, we’ve got a switch statement with slightly different syntax, right? Not quite. The name match was used for a reason — what’s actually going on here is something called Pattern Matching. To ...

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Learn how to use statements like if, if-else, switch, for, and while to declare variables and specify expressions, make decisions, iterate over statements, and more. Java applications evaluate ...

Switch statements and the case blocks they contain have been a mainstay of C-language flow-control syntax since the initial incarnation of the language back in the 1970s. C# inherited the overall ...