# Case statement equivalent?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/case-statement-equivalent/2418
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [March 3, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/case-statement-equivalent/2418 "2017-03-03T04:14:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@purplishrock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/purplishrock)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 4:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/case-statement-equivalent/2418/1 "2017-03-03T04:14:20Z")
What I want to do…
data = Foo Int | Bar Float
case x
Foo y → print “it’s an int”, y
Bar y → print “it’s a float”, y
Is there a way to approximate this ?
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### Author:  [@purplishrock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/purplishrock)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/case-statement-equivalent/2418/2 "2017-03-03T04:16:27Z")
The magic of search…
[https://matchjl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/](https://matchjl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
Not exactly sure how I stumbled upon it…
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### Author:  [@dfdx](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dfdx)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2017, 9:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/case-statement-equivalent/2418/3 "2017-03-03T09:44:55Z")
Match.jl provides quite powerful pattern matching capabilities, but if you only want to choose action based on types (or other fixed parameters), you can use great Julia’s multiple dispatch:
```julia
struct Foo
x::Int
end
struct Bar
x::Float64
end
printtype(y::Foo) = println("it's a int: $y")
printtype(y::Bar) = println("it's a float: $y")
```