{"id":236,"date":"2008-01-02T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T19:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/01\/02\/matlab-basics-switch-case-vs-if-elseif\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:29:01","slug":"matlab-basics-switch-case-vs-if-elseif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/01\/02\/matlab-basics-switch-case-vs-if-elseif\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Basics: \u2018Switch case\u2019 vs. \u2018If elseif\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"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.\r\n\r\nOften 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.\r\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>\r\nOther videos have been gathered here:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/video\/<\/a>\r\n\r\nOther MATLAB Basics posts have been gathered here:\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/matlab-basics\/\">https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/category\/matlab-basics\/<\/a>\r\n\r\nAs 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.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/01\/02\/matlab-basics-switch-case-vs-if-elseif\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/73b3b42d-28d2-43f5-a871-0310167e9c24\/921b69c2-d1a5-4846-b2b6-8c731b7134bb\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">1:31<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><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.\r\n\r\nOften times,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/01\/02\/matlab-basics-switch-case-vs-if-elseif\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}