Bash “case” statement

[Tony Esposito]

Hello,

Is the bash “case”
statement just syntactic sugar?
That is, does the bash interpreter convert the “case” statement into an
equivalent “if-then-else” statement and then do the interpretation?

If so, is there a way to create and/or see an intermediate file that shows
the conversion from a “case” statement to an “if-then-else” statement?

Thanks,
Tony