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<Tabs> <TabItem label="JavaScript (and super languages)" icon="seti:javascript"> ## Summary - Rule available since: `v1.0.0` - Diagnostic Category: [`lint/suspicious/noDuplicateCase`](/reference/diagnostics#diagnostic-category) - This rule is **recommended**, meaning it is enabled by default. - This rule doesn't have a fix. - The default severity of this rule is [**error**](/reference/diagnostics#error). - Sources: - Same as [`no-duplicate-case`](https://eslint.org/docs/latest/rules/no-duplicate-case)

How to configure

json
{
	"linter": {
		"rules": {
			"suspicious": {
				"noDuplicateCase": "error"
			}
		}
	}
}

Description

Disallow duplicate case labels.

If a switch statement has duplicate test expressions in case clauses, it is likely that a programmer copied a case clause but forgot to change the test expression.

Examples

Invalid

js
switch (a) {
    case 1:
        break;
    case 1:
        break;
    default:
        break;
}
<pre class="language-text"><code class="language-text">code-block.js:4:10 <a href="https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/no-duplicate-case">lint/suspicious/noDuplicateCase</a> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">✖</span></strong> <span style="color: Tomato;">Duplicate case label.</span> <strong>2 │ </strong> case 1: <strong>3 │ </strong> break; <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">&gt;</span></strong> <strong>4 │ </strong> case 1: <strong> │ </strong> <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong> <strong>5 │ </strong> break; <strong>6 │ </strong> default: <strong><span style="color: lightgreen;">ℹ</span></strong> <span style="color: lightgreen;">The first similar label is here:</span> <strong>1 │ </strong>switch (a) &#123; <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">&gt;</span></strong> <strong>2 │ </strong> case 1: <strong> │ </strong> <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong> <strong>3 │ </strong> break; <strong>4 │ </strong> case 1: </code></pre>
js
switch (a) {
    case one:
        break;
    case one:
        break;
    default:
        break;
}
<pre class="language-text"><code class="language-text">code-block.js:4:10 <a href="https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/no-duplicate-case">lint/suspicious/noDuplicateCase</a> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">✖</span></strong> <span style="color: Tomato;">Duplicate case label.</span> <strong>2 │ </strong> case one: <strong>3 │ </strong> break; <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">&gt;</span></strong> <strong>4 │ </strong> case one: <strong> │ </strong> <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong><strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong><strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong> <strong>5 │ </strong> break; <strong>6 │ </strong> default: <strong><span style="color: lightgreen;">ℹ</span></strong> <span style="color: lightgreen;">The first similar label is here:</span> <strong>1 │ </strong>switch (a) &#123; <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">&gt;</span></strong> <strong>2 │ </strong> case one: <strong> │ </strong> <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong><strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong><strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong> <strong>3 │ </strong> break; <strong>4 │ </strong> case one: </code></pre>
js
switch (a) {
    case "1":
        break;
    case "1":
        break;
    default:
        break;
}
<pre class="language-text"><code class="language-text">code-block.js:4:10 <a href="https://biomejs.dev/linter/rules/no-duplicate-case">lint/suspicious/noDuplicateCase</a> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">✖</span></strong> <span style="color: Tomato;">Duplicate case label.</span> <strong>2 │ </strong> case &quot;1&quot;: <strong>3 │ </strong> break; <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">&gt;</span></strong> <strong>4 │ </strong> case &quot;1&quot;: <strong> │ </strong> <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong><strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong><strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong> <strong>5 │ </strong> break; <strong>6 │ </strong> default: <strong><span style="color: lightgreen;">ℹ</span></strong> <span style="color: lightgreen;">The first similar label is here:</span> <strong>1 │ </strong>switch (a) &#123; <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">&gt;</span></strong> <strong>2 │ </strong> case &quot;1&quot;: <strong> │ </strong> <strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong><strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong><strong><span style="color: Tomato;">^</span></strong> <strong>3 │ </strong> break; <strong>4 │ </strong> case &quot;1&quot;: </code></pre>

Valid

js
switch (a) {
    case 1:
        break;
    case 2:
        break;
    default:
        break;
}
js
switch (a) {
    case one:
        break;
    case two:
        break;
    default:
        break;
}
js
switch (a) {
    case "1":
        break;
    case "2":
        break;
    default:
        break;
}
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