Hello Namaste Sathi, You can "Use the switch statement to conditionally perform statements based on an integer expression". This means that you can have a short, byte, int or char as an input value, and execute a piece of code based on in input value using the 'case' statement. The advantage to using this over a if/else construct is that a switch statement usually looks better. You can look at the first example at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/switch.html and magine how it would look if you would use an if else statement there. I hope this made things a little clearer, if not, let me know. Erik edit: I also found another link which might be useful: http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/new2java/supplements/2001/sept01.html#basics [ June 17, 2003: Message edited by: Erik Pragt ]
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FYI: In the future, with Java 1.5, we'll be able to switch on an enum. Mmmmm... enum... Don't they just sound nummy?
The old if-else-if-else is one situation that leaves me wishing Java was as good as COBOL(!) I loved the REXX "select" for years, but COBOL "evaluate" kicks *** for rich syntax. How could any modern language leave this stuff out?
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You never wrote in Bliss, did you? Bliss (used extensively within DEC to write system software) had at least 6 variants of 'switch' that I can recall. Rich, but potentially confusing. bear
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