note 28778 added to control-structures.switch
| From: | rmunn at pobox dot com | Date: | Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:21:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 28778 added to control-structures.switch | ||
| Groups: | php.notes | ||
| Request: | Send a blank email to php-notes+get-42653@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
In answer to njones at fredesign dot com, what you're seeing is the way the switch statement is
supposed to work. The switch statement evaluates the cases, top to bottom, until it finds the first
one that matches the value being switch()ed on. So, for example, if you had:
switch(2) {
case 1: echo "One\n"; break;
case 2: echo "Two\n"; break;
case 3: echo "Three\n"; break;
case 2: echo "Two again\n"; break;
}
Only "Two" would get echoed. "Two again" would NOT get echoed, because once the
first case matches, the rest of them do NOT get evaluated. As soon as a matching case is found, the
statements starting at that case get executed until the first break, then control flows out the
bottom of the switch block.
--
http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php
http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+28778
http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+28778
http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+28778