Question

I’m new to writing switch statements after learning about it yesterday.

For some reason, this isn’t working.

checkCase(2);
checkCase(1);
checkCase(0);
function checkCase(priorityType){
switch(priorityType){
     case 2:
         print(priorityType);
         break;             
        case 1:
        print(priorityType);
            break;          
        case 0:
        print(priorityType);
        break;
     }
}

The ‘alert(2)’ is triggered, 1 and 0 are not.
I’ve reversed the case 2: with case 1: and run the code again and 2 is once again triggered, 1 is not.
I’ve also tried adding break; and continue; to the cases, but still nothing.

Why is that? what have I done wrong?
———————-EDIT—————————
Lots of responses saying that I need to add ‘break;’ which I’ve now done to each line.
Still no output. I’ve also changed ‘alert’ to ‘print’. No difference.

————-edit2———————–
my bad, the ‘break’ is working now. not sure what was going on when I checked last. Maybe needed to restart ff.

Answer 1

Two problems: Debugging using alert is problematic and you need break statements.

Try adding breaks and using print in the square free shell, and I think you’ll see the proper result.

checkCase(2);
checkCase(1);
checkCase(0);
function checkCase(priorityType){
switch(priorityType){
     case 2:
         print(priorityType);               break;
        case 1:
        print(priorityType);            break;
        case 0:
        print(priorityType);   break;
     }
}