Can the last case of a switch statement skip including the break?

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Last case if a switch should be DEFAULT.. Good to have this case always. Executed only when there's no other matching cases found.
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Thank You for the question Sanjeev, Yes you can skip break in the last switch statement but it is recommended to use break in each and every switch case even though that will be the last statement. Thank You, Team DishaaPro www.dishaapro.com
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Even though the last case of a switch statement does not require a break statement at the end, you should add break statements to all cases of the switch statement, including the last case. You should do so primarily because your program has a strong chance of being maintained by someone other than you...
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Even though the last case of a switch statement does not require a break statement at the end, you should add break statements to all cases of the switch statement, including the last case. You should do so primarily because your program has a strong chance of being maintained by someone other than you who might add cases but neglect to notice that the last case has no break statement. This oversight would cause what would formerly be the last case statement to "fall through" to the new statements added to the bottom of the switch statement. Putting a break after each case statement would prevent this possible mishap and make your program more "bulletproof." Besides, most of today's optimizing compilers will optimize out the last break, so there will be no performance degradation if you add it. read less
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http://everythingonc.blogspot.in/2009/05/i5-can-last-case-of-switch-statement.html
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Yes , it can be skipped using a break statement. In fact programmer should use break statement in every case of a switch statement to make the program more strong.
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Self taught programmer

yes, it can... because when you not write the default statement, compiler automatically goes out of the switch case statement... and nothing is wrong with that
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Experienced faculty in C with data structures and C++ with Data Structures,Linux Admin with Advance linux concepts

Yes we can do it
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Diploma Engineering Tutor

In switch case we have to mention break statement in every case. In default case also. If your choice match with your case , it performs the executable statement and break the loop.
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Professional Trainer:: Hadoop Big Data, DevOps, Perl, Python

yes; you can have the habit of using break; though for last statement its optional.
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Software Professional Trainer with 26+ years of Experience in Software Design and Development

Yes. Break only to break the particular case. If break is not used in particular case, it will execute from the matching case to end of the switch case. Last case is always last match, hence after executing the last case, control end switch case automatically.
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