Redirecting Cases in a switch

[rizowski]

Is there a way you can tell the break to go to a certain case after?

For ex: I don't want them to run into each other, but i do want them to receive gold with out putting hero.gold += amount; on each case.

switch(amount){
				case 1://ITEM -> STAFF
					item = new Staff();
					hero.Inventory.add(item);
					break [COLOR="YellowGreen"]default:[/COLOR];
				case 5://ITEM -> STICKS
					item = new Misc();
					hero.Inventory.add(item);
					break [COLOR="YellowGreen"]default:[/COLOR];
		default://ONLY GOLD
			hero.gold += amount;
			System.out.println("You have received " + amount + " GP!!");
			break;
		}

Thanks

[DarrylBurke]

Maybe it's just me, but I totally can't understand what you want to achieve. A bit of clarification might be in order.

db

[gauravfzd]

Well your problem is not clear, but I think you want to execute the System.out.print statement in any case. If that is what you want you should place the print statement outside after the switch block.

In fact looking at your switch block, I think there is no need for the switch statement because the case labels aren’t doing anything special.

by the way break statement in Switch block is basically used to separate one case bock with other, otherwise the statements below the matching case will get executed.

[rizowski]

So What I am Meaning:
Using my example above. A random number of 5 was generated.
I should go to case 5: and be able to received the item sticks and then it should break. What i am asking is, is there a way for me to have a list of case statements and have them go to default: once it hits the break; statement?

[pbrockway2]

No - break takes you right out of the switch.

In the example you posted, in case you wanted the gold increment and SYstem.out.println() to happen: so just put these after the switch instead.

[Tolls]

Yes.
There's not enough detail here about your requrements.
Does the hero get gold everytime no matter what switch statement it goes through?
If so then simply do that code after the switch.
If not then you'll need to give us some more details.

[santoshpai1]

Hi ,

I understand your requirement and the solution you are thinking is not possible. If you want to execute the some common line of code after the switch, then you can write it outside, instead writing it in one of the switch cases.

switch(amount){
case 1://ITEM -> STAFF
item = new Staff();
hero.Inventory.add(item);
break default:;
case 5://ITEM -> STICKS
item = new Misc();
hero.Inventory.add(item);
break default:;
default://ONLY GOLD
System.out.println("You have received " + amount + " GP!!");
break;
}
hero.gold += amount; // MOVE YOUR LINE HERE. OUTSIDE THE SWITCH.

[Tolls]

Which doesn't work if cases 2, 3 and 4 shouldn't involve changing the gold...

Which is why I said the requirements are not detailed enough.