Why the switch statement cannot be applied on strings?

Question

Compiling the following code and got the error of type illegal.

int main()
{
    // Compilation error - switch expression of type illegal
    sw         


        

Answer 1

Late to the party, here's a solution I came up with some time ago, which completely abides to the requested syntax.

#include 

int main()
{
    uberswitch (std::string("raj"))
    {
        case ("sda"): /* ... */ break;  //notice the parenthesis around the value.
    }
}

Here's the code: https://github.com/falemagn/uberswitch