switch in main?

[bob]

I have a switch in a main function:

int main() {

switch ( 5 ) {

case 1 :
// Process for test = 1
//...
break;

case 5 :
// Process for test = 5
//...
break;

default :
// Process for all other cases.
//...

}

return 0;
}

But when I compile I get:

error: expected primary-expression before '}' token
error: expected `;' before '}' token

Is it illegal to have a switch in a main function?

[Jim Langston]

"bob" <tu*****@gmail.comwrote in message
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>I have a switch in a main function:

int main() {

switch ( 5 ) {

case 1 :
// Process for test = 1
//...
break;

case 5 :
// Process for test = 5
//...
break;

default :
// Process for all other cases.
//...

}

return 0;
}

But when I compile I get:

error: expected primary-expression before '}' token
error: expected `;' before '}' token

Is it illegal to have a switch in a main function?

Yes. Your compiler is acually bitching about:

default: }

You have no statement after the break: statement, and it was expecting one.
Change it to:

default:
// Process for all other cases.
// ...
break;
}

and it should compile.

In face even an empty statment would work.

default:
;
}