Comments on: Multiple cases for switch construct

By: Thierry

Thierry — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:34:29 +0000

After working around with the same question, I think I give some kind of explanations, a little different from the provious ones.

switch doesn’t act differently with strings.

This work fine:

case “A”:
case “B”:
case “C”:
case “D”:
$L = “ABCD”;
break;

case “E”:
case “F”:
case “G”:
case “H”:
$L = “EFGH”;
break;

Ryan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:53:28 +0000

The OR construct seems to work for me, but the range doesn’t.

Bruno — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:30:19 +0000

I’ve discovered the syntax which makes the multiple-construct work:

You simply omit the parenthesis, so that the case line reads eg:

case 1 || 2:
echo “foobar”;

and so on.

It seems that the range allows something like this:

case 1-3:
echo “foobar”;