what is wrong with this switch statment

[786snow]

I keep geting this error
C:\irfan_java>javac switching.java
switching.java:8: incompatible types
found : java.lang.String
required: int
switch ( name )
^
1 error
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What am I doing wrong here?

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

String name= "paul";

switch ( name )
{
case "paul":
System.out.println("name is paul");
break;

case "sam":
System.out.println("sam");
break;

default:
System.out.println("no name found");
}



}
}

 

[Diancecht]

Because name is a String and switch/case doesn't work with objects.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/switch.html

Cheers,
Dian