{"id":2087,"date":"2008-01-02T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T19:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2008\/01\/02\/matlab-basics-switch-case-vs-if-elseif\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T20:56:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:56:50","slug":"matlab-basics-switch-case-vs-if-elseif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2008\/01\/02\/matlab-basics-switch-case-vs-if-elseif\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Basics: &#8216;Switch case&#8217; vs. &#8216;If elseif&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This three minute video takes a look at the &#8220;Switch case&#8221; flow control statement and contrasts it with the more familiar &#8220;If elseif&#8221; flow control statement.<\/p>\n<p>Often times, people will use an &#8220;If elseif&#8221; statement where a &#8220;Switch case&#8221; statement is going to be cleaner and easier to understand and maintain.<\/p>\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877438056001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Other videos have been gathered here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other MATLAB Basics posts have been gathered here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/matlab-basics\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/matlab-basics\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a cool little post script: At most places you celebrate the 100th something or other, but since this is a software company I feel I should celebrate the 64th video (2^6) and as I post this I see that it is the 18128th file on the File Exchange capturing the next power of two in the last three digits.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This three minute video takes a look at the &#8220;Switch case&#8221; flow control statement and contrasts it with the more familiar &#8220;If elseif&#8221; flow control statement.<br \/>\nOften times,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2008\/01\/02\/matlab-basics-switch-case-vs-if-elseif\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,8,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8729,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/8729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}