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But as syntax sugar goes, I find it to be a sweet improvement.

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WinGet,Process,ProcessName,A Switch Process I've heard some folks in the AutoHotkey community refer to the new Switch–Case as "syntax sugar" - a somewhat disparaging, albeit accurate characterization, in that the same logic may be achieved with an If–Else series and a fall-through Else.

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But before ending this article, I'm going to show a sample usage based on this previous post here at Experts Exchange:įollowing is a rewrite of the If–Else portion of that code using the new Switch–Case statements: The Default statement is not required to be last in the sequence.įor more details on its operation, see the online doc at the AutoHotkey site.Each set of Case statements ends implicitly at the next Case (or at the Default statement or the closing brace of the Switch itself).

There is no EndCase statement, no Break statement, and no implicit fall-through.

In practical terms, this is not a serious limitation.

Each Case statement is limited to 20 values.

An already existing AutoHotkey command, StringCaseSense, controls the case-sensitivity of string comparisons performed by the new Switch command.

Any programmer should feel very comfortable with its syntax and semantics, although it does have its idiosyncrasies: The implementation is similar to other languages and is well-documented at the online documentation for it (and in the CHM help file that comes with the product). If those links ever go bad, a web search for "switch case c#" and "switch case java" will surely find them, along with similar searches for other languages.Īs mentioned in the article summary above, AutoHotkey has been around for 15+ years (following its fork from AutoIt ), but has not had a Switch–Case capability until the v1.1.31.00 release a few days ago. Whether you are new to AutoHotkey or not, this article presumes that you have some knowledge of Switch–Case in other programming/scripting languages, such as C# and Java:

If you are new to AutoHotkey, my Experts Exchange article will get you started with it: This article assumes that you have programming/scripting experience and are a user of the AutoHotkey language or, at the very least, interested in it.

First, let me start by saying that this is not an article to learn about the concept of Switch–Case in programming.