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Switch Statement With Strings in Java?

Does the “switch” statement in Java only work with integers ?

Can’t I write something like this instead ?

switch(string)
case “hello”: …

thanks

Answer 1

This answer is only valid for Java 6 or earlier! Switching on strings has been added in Java 7

14.11 The switch Statement

The type of the Expression must be char, byte, short, int, Character, Byte, Short, Integer, or an enum type (§8.9), or a compile-time error occurs.

Usually, when you need to switch on a string value, you can often work around this limitation by using char (as the string is only ever going to be one character long) or an enum. In your case, enum looks more likely.