C++ switch not working? What did I do wrong?

getche() only receives the input as STRING. But SWITCH uses only the INTEGER as input. So U must convert the input to an Int. There is also another mistake u have done. As alive is an Int then u can assign less than 32767 (IE 50000 is much greater). Or you have to use "long" instead of "int" as datatype.

Here is the appropriate code--

int alive=5000;

do{

char ch=0;

ch = int(getche());

switch(ch)

{

case 1:

printf ("Case 1:");

break;

case 2:

printf ("Case 2:");

break;

case 3:

printf ("Case 3:");

break;

case 4:

printf ("Case 4:");

break;

case 6:

printf ("Case 6:");

break;

case 7:

printf ("Case 7:");

break;

case 8:

printf ("Case 8:");

break;

case 9:

printf ("Case 9:");

break;

default:

printf ("in default");

}

} while(alive==5000);

It is totally right & tested. If it helps then Plz vote me :)

If ch is the character that is captured from the user, then the value would be a valid ASCII value where 32 is space, followed by symbols, then numbers, Capital letters, then lower case letters.

Your case checks would have to either be the ASCII values you are looking for, or the character value you are expecting:

case 'a':

case 'b':

etc.

does it get the integer value of the character you input? If you want to switch on the character you should put it in single quotes. case '1' ...