switch statment with characters

Hi, I'm trying to write some lines of code using a switch statment to see if certain characters are in a string. Is it possible to do this?

I tried this:

Code:

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            switch (directoryPath.Contains)
            {
                case ":":
                    //some code
                    break;
                case "\\":
                    //some code
                    break;
                case "?":
                    //some code
                    break;
                default:
                    //some code
                    break;

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but obviously that doesn't work. So is there a way to accomplish this via switch statment?

Thanks.

That doesn't make any sense. directoryPath.Contains returns a boolean, so the only two cases you can have are true and false.

Switch statements are meant to be fast/constant lookup speed conditionals. If each 'case' needs to be evaluated at runtime you cannot create a jump table when the code is compiled. Just us if/elseif statements; that's what they are there for.

You could do it like this:

Code:

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for(int i = 0; i < directoryPath.Length; i++)
{
  switch(directoryPath[i])
  {
      case '?': //do stuff
          break;
  }
}

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by BigEd781

That doesn't make any sense. directoryPath.Contains returns a boolean, so the only two cases you can have are true and false.

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I know it doesn't make any sense... that's why asked is it possible to do something like it using a switch statment. Nested if's can get so messy.

Thanks for the replies all.