Clearing a Switch? Is this possible?

[wsxdcft]

Creating a switch is fine and dandy. My problem is that I have 2 switches within the same set of code for 2 different things.

switch ($a){
case1:
whatever
break;
case2:
whatever
break;
}

.....
......

switch ($b){
case1:
whatever
break;
case2:
whatever
break;
}

My problem is that if switch 1 resolves to case 2 then switch 2 does as well. It completly ignores the $b==case equivelant.

I have worked around this by having switch #1 have a case 10 & 20. Now all works.

Am I to understand that you can have multiple switches but never use the same case value more than once.

Thanks For Any Help
Adam

[tha_mink]

I don't get it. The below code works everywhere I try it....maybe I don't understand your problem?

$a = "whassup";
$b = "beeach";

switch ($a){ 

case "whassup": 
  print"<p>Workie</p>";
break; 

case "um":
  print"<p>case is um</p>";
break;

default: 
  print"<p>what happened?</p>";
break; 
} 

//more code here...

switch ($b){ 

case "beeach": 
   print"<p>Workie</p>";
break; 

case "um":
  print"<p>case is um</p>";
break;

default:
   print"<p>What happened</p>";
break; 
}