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Bug #26671 SWITCH fails when DEFAULT statement included
Submitted: 2003-12-19 16:07 UTC Modified: 2004-01-01 20:48 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:3.0 ± 2.0
Reproduced:1 of 2 (50.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: memoimyself at yahoo dot com dot br Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.3.4 OS: Windows 2000 SP 4
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-12-19 16:07 UTC] memoimyself at yahoo dot com dot br 
Description:
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The "switch" statement fails when a "default" case is included, as in the example below. It makes no difference if there's a "break" at the end of the default case.

I'm not leaving out any parentheses, braces or semi-colons. In fact, all you need to do in order to get the switch statement below to work is comment out the last two lines before the closing brace.

Reproduce code:
---------------
$test = 'a';

switch ($test)
	{
	case 'a':
		print 'a';
		break;
	case 'b':
		print 'b';
		break;
	default:
		print 'neither';
	}

Expected result:
----------------
String 'a' should be printed on screen.

Actual result:
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Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_DEFAULT in D:\htdocs\Test\test.php on line 12

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 [2003-12-19 18:43 UTC] eru@php.net 
Works fine for me, same system:

D:\PHP>php test.php
Content-type: text/html
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4

a
D:\PHP>

Are you sure, that you don't have some control-character or anything like that in your code? Please retest.
 [2003-12-20 09:01 UTC] memoimyself at yahoo dot com dot br 
Yes, I am positive. In fact, I was getting this error when debugging a class I'd written. I then created a simple test script (which I posted here) by typing (not by copying and pasting) everything again, and the error came up again. If I comment out the "default:" line, everything works well. Damned if I know what's going on. :-)
 [2003-12-20 09:07 UTC] derick@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip

Can you see if it's fixed in this one?
 [2004-01-01 20:48 UTC] sniper@php.net 
No feedback was provided. The bug is being suspended because
we assume that you are no longer experiencing the problem.
If this is not the case and you are able to provide the
information that was requested earlier, please do so and
change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you.
 [2004-02-04 01:30 UTC] elizabeth at ctyalcove dot org 
?
$test = 'c';

switch($test)
{
case 'c' :
print('cccc');

case 'd' :
print('dddd');

default:
print('problem');
}
?>

expected output:
cccc

actual output:
ccccddddproblem

Debian Sid GNU/Linux
php4 version 4.3.3-5
 [2004-02-04 01:33 UTC] elizabeth at ctyalcove dot org 
oops, silly me - syntax error - problem fixed :)
 
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