if else if else does actually not represent the logic behind a switch instruction. In a switch instruction you have multiple possibilities and a default case. If you want to rebuild switch you can do it the closest way like this:

So there is no need (and even no sense) in using else branches and counting brackets. The breaks of the switch instruction can be easily simulated by goto. I wouldn't recomment using loops and breaks for this case as a loop suggests other readers of your code that you want to do somehting totally different.