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Posted: **Mon May 11, 2020 2:23 am**

Just curious why the case statement is rejected in the IDE with
Expression: double binary operator near is

switch tValue
	case is among the words "one two three"
		# .. do something
		break
	default
	       # do something else
	       break
end switch

I realise I could have put this which works fine, however, just interested in why first switch is not accepted in the IDE

switch
	case tValue is among the words "one two three"
		# .. do something
		break
	default
	       # do something else
	       break
end switch

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2020 6:13 am**

The non-working condition:

case is among the words "one two three"

...attempts to compare an undefined case. There's simply nothing there to tell LC what to check among the word list for.

The working version:

case tValue is among the words "one two three"

...provides an actual value to look for, the string contained in the variable tValue.

Switch case not accepting 'is among' condition