Can I put a return statement inside a switch statement?
java, methods, return, switch-statement
Solution
You can simply do:
return wordsShapes[i].toString();
This way you can avoid the switch and all.
Problem
Am I allowed to have a `switch` statement which decides what to return? For example, I want to return something different based on what my random generator come up with. Eclipse is giving me an error wanting me to put the `return` statement outside the `switch`. My code: ``` public String wordBank() { //Error here saying: "This method must return a type of string" String[] wordsShapes = new String[10]; wordsShapes[1] = "square"; wordsShapes[2] = "circle"; wordsShapes[3] = "cone"; wordsShapes[4] = "prisim"; wordsShapes[5] = "cube"; wordsShapes[6] = "cylinder"; wordsShapes[7] = "triangle"; wordsShapes[8] = "star"; wordsShapes[9] = "moon"; wordsShapes[10] = "paralellogram"; Random rand = new Random(); int i = rand.nextInt(11); if (i == 0) { i = rand.nextInt(11); } switch (i) { case 1: return wordsShapes[1].toString(); case 2: return wordsShapes[2].toString(); case 3: return wordsShapes[3].toString(); case 4: return wordsShapes[4].toString(); case 5: return wordsShapes[5].toString(); case 6: return wordsShapes[6].toString(); case 7: return wordsShapes[7].toString(); case 8: return wordsShapes[8].toString(); case 9: return wordsShapes[9].toString(); case 10: return wordsShapes[10].toString(); } } ```