Question regarding a switch statement

Can I have multiple types of arguments in a switch statement? Eg

switch n
  case 'abc'
% do something
  case 4
% do something else
  otherwise
end

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Example

n=input('n=');
switch n
  case 'abc'
      out=1
  case 4
      out=2
  otherwise
      out=3
end

Answer 2

[Michael Dimitroulopoulos]

See here http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/switch.html