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The JavaScript Switch Statement

The switch statement can be used to select one of many code blocks to execute based on the result of an expression. It provides an alternative to multiple if/else statements. The expression is evaluated once and then compared to the cases. When a match is found, the associated code block is run. The break keyword is used to prevent code from running into the next case automatically. An example demonstrates using switch to output the name of the weekday based on the result of a date function.

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The JavaScript Switch Statement

The switch statement can be used to select one of many code blocks to execute based on the result of an expression. It provides an alternative to multiple if/else statements. The expression is evaluated once and then compared to the cases. When a match is found, the associated code block is run. The break keyword is used to prevent code from running into the next case automatically. An example demonstrates using switch to output the name of the weekday based on the result of a date function.

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The JavaScript Switch Statement

Use the switch statement to select one of many blocks of code to be executed. The switch statement can be replaced by performing many if-then-else-if conditions, but when the answer of an evalution can give you many different answers, the switch-case statement can be more efficient.

Syntax
switch(n) { case 1: execute code block 1 break; case 2: execute code block 2 break; default: code to be executed if n is different from case 1 and 2 }
This is how it works: First we have a single expression n (most often a variable), that is evaluated once. The value of the expression is then compared with the values for each case in the structure. If there is a match, the block of code associated with that case is executed. Use break to prevent the code from running into the next case automatically.

Example
Display today's weekday-name. Note that Sunday=0, Monday=1, Tuesday=2, etc:

var day=new Date().getDay(); switch (day) { case 0: x="Today it's Sunday"; break; case 1: x="Today it's Monday"; break; case 2: x="Today it's Tuesday"; break; case 3: x="Today it's Wednesday"; break; case 4: x="Today it's Thursday"; break; case 5: x="Today it's Friday"; break; case 6: x="Today it's Saturday";

break; }
The result of x will be:

Today it's Monday


Try it yourself

The default Keyword


Use the default keyword to specify what to do if there is no match:

Example
If its not Staurday or Sunday, then write a default message:

var day=new Date().getDay(); switch (day) { case 6: x="Today it's Saturday"; break; case 0: x="Today it's Sunday"; break; default: x="Looking forward to the Weekend"; }

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