Multiple cases per switch?

Question

I have the following piece of code in one of my methods:
//determines the element of the animal on the chinese zodiac. Every 12 years is one cycle of the animals, then the element changes
   float caseElement = intYear % 60;  // where intYear is the year of birth provided by user
            int j = (int)caseElement;
            switch (j) {   
            case 0 11: finalElement = "Metal";break;
           case 12 23: finalElement = "Water";break;
           case 24-35: finalElement = "Wood";break;
           case 36-47: finalElement = "Fire";break;
          case 48-59: finalElement = "Earth";break;
        }I understand i could just do case 0, case 1, case 2, case 3, etc all the way to case 59 and then arrange them into five blocks, but is Is there some way to do it so i can get away with some like above, where 0-11 encompasses the range of numbers between.
As is becomng increasingly common, thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I was wrong with how the elements work actually (one element every two years then switch and repeat at the end) but i was able to adapt and then used j/2, which works.
Sankyu very much
Edited by: Sazazezer_Mililipili on Sep 18, 2008 2:42 PM