Switch Statement gives Incompatible Types error

Question

I am trying to compile and I get this error:

enigma/Rotor.java:30: incompatible types found : java.lang.String required: int     switch(name){
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Answer 1

switch accepts a String from java 7. prior to java 7 only int compatible types (short,byte,int, char) can be passed as switch arguments