otherwise

Synopsis

Default case branch as part of the case ... otherwise statement:

     case expression of
       selector: statement;
       ...
       selector: statement
     otherwise  { ``else'' instead of ``otherwise'' is allowed }
       statement;
       ...
       statement
     end

Use in a structured value of array type:

     [index1: value1; index2: value2
      otherwise value_otherwise]

Description

otherwise starts a series of statements which is executed if no selector matches expression. In this situation, else is a synonym for otherwise.

otherwise also defines the default value in an Extended Pascal structured values of array type.

Conforming to

otherwise is an ISO 10206 Extended Pascal extension.

Example

     program OtherwiseDemo;
     
     var
       i: Integer;
       a: array [1 .. 10] of Integer value [1: 2; 4: 5 otherwise 3];
     
     begin
       for i := 1 to 10 do
         case a[i] of
           2:        WriteLn ('a[', i, '] has value two.');
           3:        WriteLn ('a[', i, '] has value three.');
           otherwise WriteLn ('a[', i, '] has neither value two nor three.')
         end
     end.

See also

Keywords, case Statement, case, else.