[*noClue*]

I keep getting this error:

C:\myJavaPgms\HwScore.java:52: possible loss of precision
found : double
required: int
switch (grade)
^
1 error

Tool completed with exit code 1

Is it possible to use the switch with a double?

Thanks for your help...

This post has been edited by *noClue*: 28 March 2009 - 12:51 AM

[n8wxs]

Quote

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14.11 The switch Statement
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The type of the Expression must be char, byte, short, int, Character, Byte, Short, Integer, or an enum type (§8.9), or a compile-time error occurs.
...

See The Java Language Specification, Third Edition

This post has been edited by n8wxs: 27 March 2009 - 05:45 PM

[*noClue*]

n8wxs, on 27 Mar, 2009 - 04:43 PM, said:

Quote

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14.11 The switch Statement
...
The type of the Expression must be char, byte, short, int, Character, Byte, Short, Integer, or an enum type (§8.9), or a compile-time error occurs.
...

See The Java Language Specification, Third Edition

Thanks for this information. I did read that and tried type casting the double as an integer but I guess I wasn't doing it properly.

I still get the same error. Any ideas?

This post has been edited by *noClue*: 28 March 2009 - 12:52 AM

[mostyfriedman]

i'm guessing grade is an instance variable?, if you have it declared as double then you will still have this problem. to solve this you will have to assign the value of the cast to an int and then pass it to the switch statement.

This post has been edited by mostyfriedman: 27 March 2009 - 06:05 PM

[*noClue*]

mostyfriedman, on 27 Mar, 2009 - 05:03 PM, said:

i'm guessing grade is an instance variable?, if you have it declared as double then you will still have this problem. to solve this you will have to assign the value of the cast to an int and then pass it to the switch statement.

Should it be an instance variable? I think I have it declared as a class variable.

This post has been edited by *noClue*: 28 March 2009 - 12:53 AM

[mostyfriedman]

switch (grade.charAt(0))

the charAt() method works with strings only, try this

switch ((int)grade)

[*noClue*]

That makes sense. It worked for the switch but the information within the switch is still not being returned. -1 is showing up when I run the program not the switch information.

[mostyfriedman]

it depends on what will the value of "grade" be, its probably neither 1, 9, nor 8.that's why its returning -1

[*noClue*]

Doesn't the switch just look at the first character (case)? It is supposed to return the letter grade A for any average that equals 90 and up (the case 1 was to cover grades in the 100's), and letter grade of B for any average that equals 80-89 and so on. Am I doing it wrong?

[mostyfriedman]

the case is somewhat equivalent to an if statement, here's a translation of your switch using if statements

if(grade == 9 || grade == 1)
	return this.A;

if(grade == 8)
	return this.B;

return -1;

get it now??

[*noClue*]

I do get it now...so an if statement would be more appropriate for my code since I'm needing it for a range of values?

[mostyfriedman]

not necessarily, you can still use a switch statement.

[*noClue*]

I prefer the switch statement because they look more streamlined but my text doesn't have a lot of examples of them other than with String.charAt. How can I use a switch for a range of values?

[mostyfriedman]

if you want it to chec for a range of values then simply write the cases that belong to the range under eachother, for example

switch(int a)
{
	case 1:
	case 2: 
	case 3: System.out.println("hello");
	break;
	case 4:
	case 5: System.out.println("good bye");
	break;
}

this is equivalent to

if(a == 1 || a == 2 || a == 3)
	System.out.println("hello");
else 
if(a == 4 || a == 5)
	System.out.println("good bye");

get it now?

[*noClue*]

I guess I don't get it because if I need to do that for every value between 90-100 and 80-89 and so on that wouldn't be very efficient. Am I misunderstanding something. I was under the impression that the switch only checked for one value not a range of floating point values.