JavaScript switch statement

Question

I have problem in some JavaScript that I am writing where the Switch statement does not seem to be working as expected.

switch (msg.ResultType) {
  case 0:
    $('#txtConsole').val("Some Val 0");
    break;
  case 1:
    $('#txtConsole').val("Some Val 1");
    break;
  case 2:
    $('#txtConsole').text("Some Val 2");
    break;
}

The ResultType is an integer value 0-2 and I can see that in FireBug. In all cases, the switch transfers control to the final break statement which means all the logic is completely skipped. What am I missing?

Answer 1

I'm sure that a switch uses === for comparison in Actionscript and since JS and AS both follow the ECMAScript standard, I guess the same applies to JS. My guess is that the value is not actually a Number, but perhaps a String.

You could try to use parseInt(msg.ResultType) in the switch or use strings in the cases.