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By Stephen Chapman, About.com

Definition: The switch statement specifies a number of cases that a variable can evaluate to and one or more statements to be run if the switch evaluates to a particular case. If the switch statement does not evaluate to a particular case value then the statements following the default label will be run. Switch is a reserved word and cannot be used for anything other than declaring a switch statement.
Examples: switch (myvar) {

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