Why can't I use 'continue' inside a switch statement in Java?

Question

Why is it that the following code:

class swi  
{
    public static void main(String[] args)  
    {  
        int a=98;
        switch(a)
        {
                  


        

Answer 1

Because you have a continue outside of a loop. continue is for jumping back to the beginning of a loop, but you don't have any loop in that code. What you want for breaking out of a switch case block is the keyword break (see below).

There's also no need to put every case block within braces (unless you want locally-scoped variables within them).

So something a bit like this would be more standard:

class swi22
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int a=98;
        switch(a)
        {
            default:
                System.out.println("default");
                break;
            case 'b':
                System.out.println(a);
                break;
            case 'a':
                System.out.println(a);
                break;
        }
        System.out.println("Switch Completed");
    }
}

There's also a school of thought that says the default condition should always be at the end. This is not a requirement, just a fairly widely-used convention.