Having bother with case / switch statements

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Ive spend the past 20 minuites googling every way i could ask this question and found nothing.

Basically i want to use a case statement to decide what level of pain the player has experienced. I want to do this through a case statment

		switch (Damage)
		{
			case (Damage < 75):
				Debug.Log("SmallDMG");
				break;
			case (Damage >= 75 && Damage < 125):
				Debug.Log("Average");
				break;
			case (Damage >= 125 && Damage <= 750):
				Debug.Log("Painfull!");
				break;
			case (Damage >750):
				Debug.Log("MEGA DAMAGE");
				break;
			
		}

This way it completely ignores the case statement

		switch (Damage)
		{
			case (<75):
				Debug.Log("SmallDMG");
				break;
			case (>=75 && <125):
				Debug.Log("Average");
				break;
			case (>= 125 && <= 750):
				Debug.Log("Painfull!");
				break;
			case (>750):
				Debug.Log("MEGA DAMAGE");
				break;
			
		}

And this way it just takes a dump...

How could i do this without making a cluster of if statements, as i understand a case statement is more efficient for multiple comparisons such as this.

3

You can do this in fewer lines with if/else statements, if it is a matter of lines. But even so, I’m fairly sure that switch cases needs absolute values, and not ranges.

if(Damage < 75):
   Debug.Log("SmallDMG");
else if (Damage >= 75 && Damage < 125)
    Debug.Log("Average");
else if(Damage >= 125 && Damage <= 750)
    Debug.Log("Painfull!");
else
    Debug.Log("MEGA DAMAGE");
2

A switch is the wrong thing to use here… but if you insist!

switch (Damage)
    {
        default: 
            if(Damage < 75) {
                Debug.Log("SmallDMG");
            } else if(Damage >= 75 && Damage < 125) {
                Debug.Log("Average");
            } else if(Damage >= 125 && Damage <= 750) {
                Debug.Log("Painfull!");
            } else if(Damage >750) {
                Debug.Log("MEGA DAMAGE");
            }
    }