Program Control Statements - Java: A Beginner's Guide - page 86

The program produces the following output:
As you can see, the default else is executed only if none of the preceding if statements suc-
ceeds.
The switch Statement
The second of Java's selection statements is the switch . The switch provides for a multi-
way branch. Thus, it enables a program to select among several alternatives. Although a
series of nested if statements can perform multiway tests, for many situations the switch
is a more efficient approach. It works like this: the value of an expression is successively
tested against a list of constants. When a match is found, the statement sequence associated
with that match is executed. The general form of the switch statement is