FAQ: Conditionals - Switch Statement: Compound Cases

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Switch Statement: Compound Cases” exercise from the lesson “Conditionals”.

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It appears that the Codecademy checker cares whether you way case "Earth", "Mercury", "Venus", "Mars": versus saying case "Mercury", "Venus", "Earth", "Mars": even if Swift doesn’t.

But I am pleased to say that the Codecademy checker will allow me to add other cases, so I was able to add

case "Pluto":
  print("Kuiper belt object")

case "Eros", "Pallas", "Ceres":
  print("Fo da Beltalowda!")
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So I learned two things while doing this to gain a better understanding of switches. The first is when I was writing compound cases I used the quotation mark like so “Earth, Mercury… etc” like so instead of putting them in their own individual quotation mark for each like so “Earth”, “Mercury”, etc… like so.
The second thing I learned was how to better read the debug console. Just wanted to share my experience. Keep up the grind guys and gals!!!

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So the questions are very percise this wasn’t marked as correct.

var planet = “Earth”

// Write your code below :ringer_planet:

switch planet
{
case “Earth”, “Mercury”, “Venus”, “Mars”:
print(“(planet) is a Terrestrial planet”)
case “Saturn”, “Jupiter”, “Uranus”, “Neptune”:
print(“(planet) is a Jovian planet”)
default:
print(“Unknown planet”)
}