Basic JavaScript - Adding a Default Option in Switch Statements

JavaScript
1

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I don’t really have an issue with this exercise per se but I was wondering why the values were written in quotation marks in this exercise but not in the last one. If you remember in the last one the code was
switch(val){
case 1:
answer = “alpha”;
break;
now this time you had to put the values in quotation marks or it wouldn’t work:
case “a”:
answer = “apple”;
break;
Can anybody tell me why?

Your code so far

function switchOfStuff(val) {
  let answer = "";
  // Only change code below this line

  switch (val){
    case "a":
    answer = "apple";
    break;
    case "b":
    answer = "bird";
    break;
    case "c":
    answer = "cat";
    break;
    default:
    answer = "stuff";
    break;
  }



  // Only change code above this line
  return answer;
}

switchOfStuff(1);

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Challenge: Basic JavaScript - Adding a Default Option in Switch Statements

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2

It depends on what cases you’re trying to match. If they’re strings, you need to use quotation marks. If they’re numeric values, you don’t.

3

Good God I completely forgot! Thank you so much!