How can I use Logical expressions in a switch/case?

[stevex33]

Hello,
I'm doing a bit of experimentation and would like a bit of advice if possible please.

In my switch statement I would like to use the || or operator, it works correctly it I set the case to 31, but if I try 1||31 it doesn't.

If anyone can shed some light on this I'd appreciate it.

        myDate = new Date();
	myMonth = month[myDate.getMonth()];
	myDay = myDate.getDate();
	dayAddon= null;
	myWeekDay = weekday[myDate.getDay()];

	switch(myDay){
		case (1 || 31):
			dayAddon = "st";
			alert(dayAddon);
			break
	}

Thanks

[crmalibu]

switch (true) {

}

Personally, normal if/else is what I would use.

[stevex33]

Thanks for the reply, though I don't quite understand.

Are you telling me to replace "myDay" with "true" ?

I did consider the normal if/else route, but since my experience with switch cases was limited, I wanted to give it a go as it looked cleaner.

Also I'm going to have 3 or 4 cases, and as you can imagine this will make the code much more difficult to read using if/else.

What's the reason that it doesn't work with the code that I've attempted, it seems fairly logical.

[r51]

(1 || 31) will always return true as 1 is truthy. However, the switch statement will check to see if the variable specified is identical to the case value. As myDay is an integer, it will not match the boolean value true.

You could try to let the code execution 'fall through' your case blocks.

switch(myDay)
{
   case 1:
   case 31:
      // do stuff
      break;
   // other cases
}

[stevex33]

ah that did the trick, thanks a lot.
I appreciate the explanation also.

thanks again