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In this tutorial we will be learning how to tackle c program if we have relational operators in switch case.

Relational operators in switch case

void main()
{
   int choice = 10 ;
   switch(choice) 
   {
    case <10:
         printf("Less than 10");
         break;
    case =10:
         printf("Equal to 10");
         break;
    case >10:
         printf("Greater than 10");
         break;
   }
}

Options :

1. Yes
2. No

Explanation

In C programming when you use relational operator in an expression then it will return you two results either true or false i.e 0 or 1.

Consider the below program which is expanded version after evaluating expression

void main()
{
   int choice = 10 ;
   switch(choice) 
   {
    case 0:
         printf("Less than 10");
         break;
    case 1:
         printf("Equal to 10");
         break;
    case 0:
         printf("Greater than 10");
         break;
   }
}

You will find the above expansion because here choice = 10 so only 2nd condition will be evaluated to be true so all the remaining cases will be having label 0.

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In this case all other conditions will be having same switch case label so it will throw compile time error. So C does not allow us to use relational operators in switch case