Comparing chars in Java

Question

I want to check a char variable is one of 21 specific chars, what is the shortest way I can do this?

For example:

if(symbol == (\'A\'|\'B\'|\'C\')){}         


        

Answer 1

It might be clearer written as a switch statement with fall through e.g.

switch (symbol){
    case 'A':
    case 'B':
      // Do stuff
      break;
     default:
}