Help With Switch Please!

Hey, I don't understand how the switch statement works, I think I am doing everything right but am obviously missing something because I just can't get the damn thing to work.

Here is what I have so far:

var state = prompt("What state are you in?", "");
		
		switch(state.toUppercase()) {
			case "CA" :
			alert("You live in CA");
			break;
			
			case "HI" :
			alert("You live in HI");
			break;
			
			default :
			alert("Heck know's where you live");
			break;
		}

Code (markup):

It just alerts me the default text even if I type in one of those states.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

 

Replace

switch(state.toUppercase())

Code (markup):

with:

switch(state.toUpperCase())

Code (markup):

Works for me.

 

Oh whoops, needed to make that to upper case but I noticed it don't work in IE but works perfect in FireFox, stupid IE.

Thanks anyway, I just needed to check I had the right idea about switch statements!

 

I.E. runs the corrected code as it should. Your original code would have generated an error in the console.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Statements:switch