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char can always be considered as int ...

Posted by Kishori Sharan on December 23, 2000 at 12:13 AM

char, byte, and short are always promoted to int type whenever necessary. The requirement of case expression is that it must be a compile-time integer constant. So, char can be used without any problem as an expression in case block within switch statement.

Thanx
Kishori