I don't understand why my Javas witch statement won't work & possibility of cases other than numbers in switch statements

Question

Hello guys,

I wrote a switch statement (see below), and as far as I can tell, it's written correctly so I don't understand what I did wrong, even with the explanation of the error that comes up.

Like I think the error is saying that a semicolon should go between the closing parentheses or ")"and the opening squiggly brace or "{" in the first line of the switch statement, but a ; shouldn't go there.

The 2nd error is an orphaned case, but I don't know what that means.

And while I'm here, can you have a case that is anything other than a number?

Like:

switch (tagger) {
case ana:
System.out.println("Ana is it.");

Below are the code, the errors and a link to the code.

First the code:

public class Program {

public static void main(String[] args) {
int medal = 1;

Switch (medal) {
case 1:
System.out.println("You got 1st place.");
case 2:
System.out.println("You got 2nd place.");
case 2:
System.out.println("You got 3rd place");
}

}
}

Next the Errors:

./Playground/Program.java:10: error: ';' expected
Switch (medal) {
^
./Playground/Program.java:11: error: orphaned case
case 1:
^
2 errors

Link to the code:
https://code.sololearn.com/cBOSiaYx4nFe

Thank you in advance for your help!

Thanks,

Iulia

Answer 1

Use small s in switch( ...) {

and you have same case values last as 2. Must be unique cases.
Add a break; after each case, otherwise it fall through the next all cases from matching case, executes automatically..

hope it helps....

Answer 2

public class Program
{
public static void main(String[] args) {

printDays(-2);

}

public static void printDays(int days){

switch(days){

case 0:
System.out.println("today is sunday");
break;

case 1:
System.out.println("today is Monday");
break;

case 2:
System.out.println("today is Tueday");
break;

case 3:
System.out.println("today is Wednesday");
break;

case 4:
System.out.println("today is Thursday");
break;

case 5:
System.out.println("today is Friday");
break;

case 6:
System.out.println("today is Saturday");
break;

default:
System.out.println("Invalid day");
break;

}

}
}

Answer 3

switch (medal) { // small letter
case 1:
System.out.println("You got 1st place.");
break;
case 2:
System.out.println("You got 2nd place.");
break;
case 3: // 3rd place
System.out.println("You got 3rd place");
break;
default:
System.out.println("You got " + medal);
}