Question

I tried this in jade served by express but got “unexpected identifier” as an error.

- switch(myvar)
    - case: "0"
        span First Case
            break
    - case: "2"
        span Second Case
            break
    - case: "3"
        span Third Case
            break
    - case: "4"
        span Fourth Case
            break

I was curious as to what is the syntax for a switch statement, if there is one.

Update: Jade, not express.

Answer 1

EDIT

This question is apparently about Jade instead.

But the answer is still yes :).

But it’s called case:

From the docs

case friends
    when 0
        p you have no friends
    when 1 
        p you have a friend
    default
        p you have #{friends} friends

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Javascript has a switch statement.

switch(variable){
    case 1:
        // do something
        break;
    case 2:
        // do something else
        break;
    // and so forth
    default: 
        // do something if nothing
        break;
 }

Being that Express.js runs in Node.js which is just JavaScript — yes. Express has a switch statement since JavaScript has a switch statement. (Even coffeescript has a switch that “compiles” down to a JavaScript switch statement.)

MDN reference: switch statement

It looks like your syntax is messed up there — what are those “-” characters? You’re also missing the : from the end of each case statement, and you’re not breaking after each case which means the code for ALL cases will ALWAYS run regardless of the condition.