Don't Understand Default Case in Switch Statement

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I don’t understand how the default activity is supposed to work in Switch.

My statement returns a string. I made sure that the type is string.

I have three case statements, one for “A”, “B”, and “C” for example.

I should only receive those three values, and if I do not, then I want to throw an exception. So I put my exception in the Default case, but as it is first, it throws it every time. This doesn’t make sense to me.

I want to have something like an “Else” case, if there are no other matches then do this…

Thanks,

Bryan

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That is how it should work, default is when none of the conditions are met. see this example, if the user selects a name that i do not have a case for, then it does the default activities. One thing to note is that you do not need quotes around the values for each case…
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Expression is the variable assigned to the selection from the user.
The case are the string values i am looking for in the condition without quotes. It is funny because you need quotes for string values everywhere else.

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That is odd indeed :slight_smile:

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I made a mistake. In my case statements I had “A” instead of A, and “B” instead of B. That is a little tricky. It works now.

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Sure thing, i dont blame you, i remember when i first used this activity, had the exactly same problem than you with the default coming first always :joy:

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