Thread: Switches

Hello everyone. I am beginer in Java programming. Current chapter i am reading covers if,else and switch. I am doing a lot of hands on and as i read chapters i try to create diffrent codes. Sorry this is probably very simple for you guys but i cant figure it out. i already created similair project just using if but i wanted to do switch one.

Thank you

Not sure what you're asking help on exactly.

I think I get your issue though from looking at your code. If you want it to only do the case that you want it to and not go onto the next one if it meets it, then add a break clause after each case

case 'A':
System.out.println("You got A");
break;

Here's a java tutorial on how to do switches. The switch Statement (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)

Goodbyeworld, the switch is not working at all and on lines that gradel variable get assigned a char it says it is being unused

--- Update ---

I did forget break; tho thanks for reminding

Yeah, I shoulda seen that earlier. I was only looking at the switch part earlier.


One problem is that you have the char variable gradel local to your if statements and hence it goes out of scope when your if statements end. That's probably causing an error.

int grade = 85;
char gradel = 'x';


I might add that you may want to use && statements to your code so it will output that you got a B (as it goes right now, it will output that you got a C.)

Also, using if , else if, else statements will help with your if part so it outputs the right answer.


Each grade has a range. For A, you said it needs to be 90 or more. For B, you said it has be less than 90 AND greater than or equal to 80. For C, you said it has to be less than 80 AND greater than or equal to 70, for F, it has to be less than 70.


Your code is doing nothing if the grade is 90 or 80 as it is written right now and is marking it as C as an 85 would fit in the B range but would also fit in the category of >= 70 so it's going into that block too and hence it's retuning a C as your grade when you give it an 85.


Use if, else if, and else blocks to help make sure it only goes into one block. Use && when necessary to help specify both an upper and lower bound for the grade scores that fit that grade.

I am trying to make it so when grade falls within those ranges it assigns A B C F to them depending on what grade it.. i wrote code that achieves this by only if but just wanted to use switch.. i think i understand what you are saying about having gradel local now.. what is good solution?

You wanted to use switch to output something once it figured out the grade with your if statements or did you want to use switches to determine the grade

(i.e. you pass an int grade value to the switch and have it assign the char variable a grade.)

The second one is highly impractical in that you can't have a "range" in a switch and would have do something like


switch(score)

case 100:
gradel = 'A';
break;

case 99:
gradel = 'A';
break;

case 98:
gradel = 'A';
break;

........


As for the char gradel and how to make it compile, you could do something like this:

int grade = 85;
char gradel = 'x';
if (grade >= 90){
gradel = 'A';
}
.............


You need to initialize it otherwise it'll say something like "variable gradel might not have been initialized" when it reaches your switch statement.


Also, as for using only if statements, you could do something like this and still get the correct ouput


if (grade >=90)
{
gradel = 'A';
}

if (grade < 90 && grade >=80)
{
gradel = 'B';
}

........





Your code with the if statements will do this


int grade = 85;
if (grade >= 90){
char gradel = 'A';
}
if (grade < 90);
if (grade >= 80){
char gradel = 'B';
}
if (grade < 80);
if (grade >= 70){
char gradel = 'C';
}
if (grade < 70){
char gradel = 'F';
}


85 is not >= 90 so not 'A'

85 is less than 90 so execute empty ; statement

85 is >= 80 so gradel is 'B'

85 is not less than 80 so don't go to empty ; statement

85 is >= 70 so gradel is now 'C'

85 is not less than 70 so not 'F'

and, in the end, your code will output,

"You got C."

Thank you this is what i have now. good news is errors are gone..however it is not functioning. I am pretty new to this. this is what i have right now i will try to make it work from information you gave me

public class switches {

/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {

int grade = 90;
char gradel = 'X';
if (grade >= 90)
gradel = 'A';

if (grade < 90)
if (grade >= 80)
gradel = 'B';

if (grade < 80)
if (grade >= 70)
gradel = 'C';

if (grade < 70)
gradel = 'F';

switch (gradel){
case 'A':
System.out.println("You got A");
case 'B':
System.out.println("You got B");
case 'C':
System.out.println("You got C");
case 'F':
System.out.println("You got F");

}
}

--- Update ---

This is the one i did using if only.. the only reason i wanted to do switch so i can understand and be able to implent it if i need to.. the if one was very straight forward and worked

public class If {

/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO code application logic here
int grade = 85;
if (grade > 89){
System.out.println("You got A");
System.out.println("Your grade is " +grade);
}
if (grade < 90){
if (grade >= 80)
System.out.println("You got B");
System.out.println("your grade is " +grade);
}
if (grade < 80)
if (grade >=70){
System.out.println("You got C");
System.out.println("Your grade is " +grade);
}
if (grade < 70){
System.out.println("You got F");



















}

}
}