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[live504]

            const string myName = "Brandon";
            const string coolName = "Bam";
            const string sillyName = "ploppy";
            Console.WriteLine("What is your name?");
            string usrName = Console.ReadLine();
            switch (usrName.ToLower())
            {
                case myName:
                case coolName:
                case sillyName:
                    Console.WriteLine("That's a very silly name.");
                    break;
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Hello {0}!", usrName);
            Console.ReadKey();

In my book it says that I can stack the case statements and if one of the conditions are met, it will execute the block of code under it. Well, if I type in brandon, it doesn't say "that's a very silly name". How come its doing that?

[Simonxz]

You call toLower and Brandon has a capital letter in it

[d347hm4n]

I would do the following:

            const string myName = "BRANDON";

            const string coolName = "BAM";

            const string sillyName = "PLOPPY";

            Console.WriteLine("What is your name?");

            string usrName = Console.ReadLine();

            switch (usrName.ToUpper())

            {

                case myName:

                case coolName:

                case sillyName:

                    Console.WriteLine("That's a very silly name.");

                    break;

            }

            Console.WriteLine("Hello {0}!", usrName);

So you can type into the console in any case, it will convert it to upper case and compare it against upper case. I hope that helps.

[Simonxz]

He is doing the same but for lower case, he just forgot the uppercase B in Brandan and Bam

[TCristoforo]

It looks like you're missing a few 'break' statements, under the first 2 cases. Otherwise, the other posters are right, C# strings are case sensitive so a capital B is not the same as a lowercase b.

[Simonxz]

He doesn't, in C# you can stack up cases and they work as "or".

It's the same as

if (myName == usrName.ToUpper() || coolName == usrName.ToUpper() || sillyName == usrName.ToUpper())

    Console.WriteLine("That's a very silly name.");

[TCristoforo]

Right, I get the idea of 'falling through', I just wasn't sure if that was part of the OP's intention. We're back to the string being case sensitive then :)

[GIT Solutions]

According to me you first remove the toLower() function from the switch case and then execute the code .