title: Can I put a return statement inside a switch statement?
body: <p>Am I allowed to have a <code>switch</code> statement which decides what to return? For example, I want to return something different based on what my random generator come up with. Eclipse is giving me an error wanting me to put the <code>return</code> statement outside the <code>switch</code>.</p>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public String wordBank() { //Error here saying: "This method must return a type of string"
      String[] wordsShapes = new String[10];
      wordsShapes[1] = "square";
      wordsShapes[2] = "circle";
      wordsShapes[3] = "cone";
      wordsShapes[4] = "prisim";
      wordsShapes[5] = "cube";
      wordsShapes[6] = "cylinder";
      wordsShapes[7] = "triangle";
      wordsShapes[8] = "star";
      wordsShapes[9] = "moon";
      wordsShapes[10] = "paralellogram";
  
      Random rand = new Random();
      int i = rand.nextInt(11);
  
      if (i == 0) {
          i = rand.nextInt(11);
      }
  
      switch (i) {
      case 1:
          return wordsShapes[1].toString();
      case 2:
          return wordsShapes[2].toString();
      case 3:
          return wordsShapes[3].toString();
      case 4:
          return wordsShapes[4].toString();
      case 5:
          return wordsShapes[5].toString();
      case 6:
          return wordsShapes[6].toString();
      case 7:
          return wordsShapes[7].toString();
      case 8:
          return wordsShapes[8].toString();
      case 9:
          return wordsShapes[9].toString();
      case 10:
          return wordsShapes[10].toString();
      }
  }
  </code></pre>