CS160: Foundations in Programming: Summer 2016

• The statements after that case will be executed sequentially until there is a break statement.
  
• Once the program hits a break statement, the program will jump to the end of the switch statement and continue execution.

Using integers

int day = 5;
String tomorrow = "";

switch(day){

case 0:
    System.out.println("It's not the weekend! Let's work!");
    tomorrow = "Tuesday";
    break;
case 1:
    System.out.println("It's not the weekend! Let's work!");
    tomorrow = "Wednesday";
    break;
case 2:
    System.out.println("It's not the weekend! Let's work!");
    tomorrow = "Thursday";
    break;
case 3:
    System.out.println("It's not the weekend! Let's work!");
    tomorrow = "Friday";
    break;
case 4:
    System.out.println("It's not the weekend! Let's work!");
    tomorrow = "Saturday";
    break;
case 5:
    System.out.println("It's the weekend! Let's go outside!");
    tomorrow = "Sunday";
    break;
case 6:
    System.out.println("It's the weekend! Let's go outside!");
    tomorrow = "Monday";
    break;
default:
    System.out.println("Not a valid day of the week!");
    tomorrow = "?";
}
System.out.println("Tomorrow is: " + tomorrow);

Using Strings

String firstName = "kamaji"; 
switch (firstName) {

case "chihiro":
    System.out.println("You must help your parents!");
    break;
case "haku":
    System.out.println("You are the river spirit!");
    break;
case "zeniba":
    System.out.println("You are a powerful witch!");
    break;
case "kamaji":
    System.out.println("You toil in the boiler room!");
    break;
default:
    System.out.println("Are you a character in Spirited away?.");
    break;
}

Using characters

Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Please enter a letter: ");
char myChar = keyboard.next().charAt(0); // what's going on here?

switch (myChar) {
case 'L': case 'l':
    System.out.println("L is for the way you look at me,");
    break;
case 'O': case 'o':
    System.out.println("O is for the only one I see,");
    break;
case 'V': case 'v':
    System.out.println("V is very, very extraordinary,");
    break;
case 'E': case 'e':
    System.out.println("E is even more than anyone that you adore can.");
}