[SOLVED] Switch statement (unexpected T_BREAK)

[5kyy8lu3]

Hi.  I wrote a function that I send a single character string to that returns the long version of the cardinal direction.  If I send 'n' to the function, it returns 'north'.  Or it's supposed to anyhow.

 

I'm getting this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_BREAK on line 32

 

Here's the code:

function cardinal($string)
{
	switch ($string)
		{
			case "n":
				$ret = 'north';
				break;               //this is line 32 in my code
			case "e":
				$ret = 'east';
				break;
			case "s":
				$ret = 'south';
				break;
			case "w":
				$ret = 'west';
				break;
		}
	return($ret);
}

 

i've triple-checked the syntax on php.net, and i've searched the t_break parse error on google and I just can't seem to find out what I'm doing wrong.

 

if it helps any, i use the function up to 3 consecutive times if the direction is something like 'NNW' or 'SSE'.  depending on the string length i do different things.  if it's a length of 1 i just send it straight to the function.  if it has a length of 2 i put the first character into $a = substr($string, 0, 1) and the second into $b = substr($string, 1, 1); and send both to the function on the same like where i add the final product together like such:

 

		
$a = substr($wind_from, 0, 1);
$b = substr($wind_from, 1, 1);
$c = substr($wind_from, 2, 1);
$wind_from = ucfirst(cardinal($a)) . '-' . ucfirst(cardinal($b)) . cardinal($c);

 

thanks ahead of time.

 

[rhodesa]

looks like you have some hidden characters in there. try this:

function cardinal($string)
   {
      switch ($string)
         {
            case "n":
               $ret = 'north';
               break;
            case "e":
               $ret = 'east';
               break;
            case "s":
               $ret = 'south';
               break;
            case "w":
               $ret = 'west';
               break;
         }
      return($ret);
   }

you can also shorten it by returning directly:

function cardinal($string)
   {
      switch ($string)
         {
            case "n": return 'north';
            case "e": return 'east';
            case "s": return 'south';
            case "w": return 'west';
         }
      return 'Unknown';
   }

[5kyy8lu3]

looks like you have some hidden characters in there. try this:

function cardinal($string)
   {
      switch ($string)
         {
            case "n":
               $ret = 'north';
               break;
            case "e":
               $ret = 'east';
               break;
            case "s":
               $ret = 'south';
               break;
            case "w":
               $ret = 'west';
               break;
         }
      return($ret);
   }

you can also shorten it by returning directly:

function cardinal($string)
   {
      switch ($string)
         {
            case "n": return 'north';
            case "e": return 'east';
            case "s": return 'south';
            case "w": return 'west';
         }
      return 'Unknown';
   }

 

sweet, I plugged in the 'shortened' code and it worked, I really need to set my default editor as notepad++, regular windows notepad keeps corrupting my code.  thanks for the help, i appreciate it.