using greater than or less than in 'switch' and 'case' expressions

I don't quite understand how to use the switch and case expressions to calculate when a variable is less than or greater than a particular value. Something like this:

x = 7
switch x
case > 5
disp ('x is greater than 5') 
case < 5
disp ('x is less than 5')
otherwise 
disp ('error')

[zhyar]

you can not write case >5 it will give you error

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

use if...elseif..else..end

if x > 5
    disp ('x is greater than 5') 
elseif x < 5
    disp ('x is less than 5')
else
    disp ('error')
end

Answer 2

[Tom]

inequalities are best used with IF statements rather than switch; switch is useful for handling a variety of known values.

If you wanted to write it using a switch statement, it might be like this:

switch n
    case num2cell(1:4)
        disp('n is less than 5')
    case num2cell(6:10)
        disp('n is greater than 5')
    otherwise
        disp('error')
end

But clearly this only works for values of n between 1 and 10.

Answer 3

[Walter Roberson]

x = 7
switch true 
case x > 5
disp ('x is greater than 5') 
case x < 5
disp ('x is less than 5')
otherwise 
disp ('error')
end