Select Case Again

[paul84]

HAs anyone got the correct code for dealing with switch case statements when you want to compare strings. At the moment i keep getting the error of comparing primitive data types to an object which is fare enough but thier must be some trick to fooling the compilier.

kind regards paul.

 

[sedj]

The short answer is no.

Switch statements only deal with primitives because the runtime only needs to allocate memory for the largest primitive available (in bits) - so the compiler treats the statements completely different to other comparable constructs. If this was not the case, then a switch would be nothing more than if/else - but the reason for its quickness is for the memory allocation reasons mentioned.

This was discussed in depth in this thread - thread269-874969

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