Why Switch case on String works without inverted comma and don't with inverted comma

[ashokkarale]

I’m getting trained on basics of UI Path and came across an assignment where I had to use Switch

So I used like below and it was going in default case always.

After searching for it over and over I found that we should not use inverted comma for string. Tried that and it worked.

This is something different from my programming basics.

Can someone tell me why Switch case on String works without inverted comma and don’t with inverted comma?

[Sergey_Petrenko]

The string value must always be in quotation marks. stopLightsColor is have to be a variable.

Please check the variables tab.

[Palaniyappan (Palaniyappan P)]

@ashokkarale

After searching for it over and over I found that we should not use inverted comma for string. Tried that and it worked.

Yes you Are Right
We need to mention the string literals without double quotes when we mention for case values

How to use switch on a string

Thanks for this sample. It was counterintuitive to me that we do not put the case values in double quotes… as we would for every other string in UIPath.

Even I have wondered in it many times
Cheers @ashokkarale

[bcorrea (Bruno Correa)]

Sorry but be careful here, all values must be WITHOUT the quotes there…

[Sergey_Petrenko]

The question was why Switch cases on String works without inverted comma.

The answer is Because cases act like arguments. This question has already been discussed here.

Use variables on case of a switch

With switches the cases can’t be variables but instead arguments, hence why it doesn’t work when you put the name of the variable in because it sees it as a string. But it will work when you 19/04/2019 as a string as the case. https://forum.uipath.com/t/how-to-use-variable-as-the-case-of-switch-activity/119493

I did not immediately understand the question, but now the answer is accurate