Introduction to Programming

switch...case 

The previous code example of the last section can be expressed as a switch statement, as follows:

switch(x){  case 5:    //do something    break;  case 7:    //do something else    break;  case 12:    //do something different    break;  case 50:    //do something yet more different    break;  default:    //do something completely different}

The type of the expression that returns the value of the x variable can be either char, byte, short, int, Character, Byte, Short, Integer, String, or an enum type. Notice the break keyword. It forces the exit from the switch...case statement. Without it, the following statement, do something, would be executed. We will talk about the break statement in the Branching statements section later. 

The types that can be used ...