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    <p>I was given a little task to complete where a user would be asked to input either a month or the numerical equivalent and it would return the numerical value of the entered month, or the month corresponding to the inputted numerical value. The constraints are as follows: - It must not contain a GUI of any kind - I have to use the BufferedReader for input - I have to use at least one Switch statement</p> <p>If anyone has any ideas, it would be greatly appreciated. My code so far is as follows:</p> <pre><code>/** * Month task * * @author Dan Foad * @version 0.01 */ import java.io.IOException; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class Months { public static void main(String []args) throws IOException { int iInput; boolean isParseable; String szInput; BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); System.out.println("Please type either the number of the month, or the month itself to convert."); System.out.print("&gt; "); szInput = br.readLine(); try { Integer.valueOf(szInput); isParseable = true; } catch(Exception e) { isParseable = false; } if (isParseable) { iInput = Integer.valueOf(szInput); System.out.println(numberToMonth(iInput)); } else { szInput = szInput.toLowerCase(); System.out.println(monthToNumber(szInput)); } return; } public static String numberToMonth(int iMonth) { String MonthReturn; switch(iMonth) { case (1): MonthReturn = "January"; break; case (2): MonthReturn = "February"; break; case (3): MonthReturn = "March"; break; case (4): MonthReturn = "April"; break; case (5): MonthReturn = "May"; break; case (6): MonthReturn = "June"; break; case (7): MonthReturn = "July"; break; case (8): MonthReturn = "August"; break; case (9): MonthReturn = "September"; break; case (10): MonthReturn = "October"; break; case (11): MonthReturn = "November"; break; case (12): MonthReturn = "December"; break; default: MonthReturn = "0"; break; } return MonthReturn; } public static int monthToNumber(String szMonth) { int MonthReturn; switch(szMonth) { case ("january"): MonthReturn = 1; break; case ("february"): MonthReturn = 2; break; case ("march"): MonthReturn = 3; break; case ("april"): MonthReturn = 4; break; case ("may"): MonthReturn = 5; break; case ("june"): MonthReturn = 6; break; case ("july"): MonthReturn = 7; break; case ("august"): MonthReturn = 8; break; case ("september"): MonthReturn = 9; break; case ("october"): MonthReturn = 10; break; case ("november"): MonthReturn = 11; break; case ("december"): MonthReturn = 12; break; default: MonthReturn = 0; break; } return MonthReturn; } } </code></pre>
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    1. COIf you have to use a switch statement then this is probably how they expected you to convert the months.
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    2. COIs your code working? If not, what specific problems are you having?
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    3. COMy code works fine, I was just wondering if there was a more efficient way to perform this, as currently it seems a bit odd to have two switch statements that basically perform the same function, albeit in reverse. Not sure how I would improve it though.
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