How to use Greater Than and Less than in a switch statement

Is there anyway to use greater than or less than in Switch statements?

Like this

switch(variable){
case <0:
do stuff;
break;
default:
break;
}

Thanks for any help

thats crazy, just use an if-else statement.

hi,

as far as I know only constants are in switch-case-statements allowed. I would also go for if-else

I did use if else statements at first and it worked fine, the only problem is in my class they use this thing called Checkstyle and the more if else statements I have it gives a Cyclomatic Complexity error. Has anyone here used Checkstyle? Checkstyle is alot more forgiving on Switch Statements.

hm, never herd of that error. have u some code beside that code above?

dont know if it will help but here is a switch statement that I have in a working app

Code:

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// THE SWITCH BELOW WILL GIVE A DISCOUNT FOR THE NUMBER OF YEARS NO CLAIMS DISCOUNT
switch (Integer.parseInt(txtYears.getText())) { 
      case 1:
          premium = premium * 0.80;
          break;
        case 2:
          premium = premium * 0.70;
          break;
        case 3:
          premium = premium * 0.60;
          break;
        case 4:
          premium = premium * 0.50;
          break;
        case 5:
          premium = premium * 0.45;
          break;
// 2 years no claims bonus case 6
        case  6:
          premium = premium * 0.41;
          break;
        case  7:
          premium = premium * 0.40;
          break;
         
      default:
          premium = premium ;
  }

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I would put the lookup into a static HashMap<Integer, Double> in this way:

Code:

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static Map<Integer, Double> factors = new HashMap<Integer, Double>();
factors.put(1, 0.80);
factors.put(2, 0.70);
factors.put(3, 0.60);
... ...
:
:
premium *= factors.get(Integer.parseInt(txtYears.getText()));

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This has the advantage of keeping the lookup values at the top (or bottom) of the class, easy to find if the business rules change.

Of course, if frequent changes are anticipated, the data should be read from a database.

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by JordashTalon

Is there anyway to use greater than or less than in Switch statements?

Like this

switch(variable){
case <0:
do stuff;
break;
default:
break;
}

Thanks for any help

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Hi! I was looking for the answer to this myself, and I think I discovered an easy way as I was reading.

add an int.

int i;

if(var1>var2) i = 1;
if(var1=var2 i = 0;
if(var1<var2) i = -1;

switch (i);
{
case -1:
do stuff;
break;

case 0:
do stuff;
break;

case 1:
do stuff;
break;

}

If it's just a few small ranges, you could take advantage of the fact that execution "falls through" to the next case whenever you omit a break statement:

Code:

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switch(someInteger) {
  case 1:
  case 2:
  case 3:
      // do stuff
  break;
  case 4:
  case 5:
  case 6:
      // do stuff
  break;
}

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If there are many large ranges, an if-else statement would probably be better. Switches can be more efficient, but they are harder to write and maintain, and therefore more likely to introduce bugs. I only use large switches in generated code.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Nomadyn

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