Using fstream with switch-case statement

[khms]

When I am using the ofstream to declare a variable in one case, there is error and the output says that
"error C2360: initialization of 'in' is skipped by 'case' label"

code as follows:

case 1:	ofstream in(filename, ios::app);
		Log.actionup();
		in << Log.getaction() << "\t" << bucket.getbk1() << "\t" << bucket.getbk2() << "\t" << bucket.getbk3() << endl;
		in.close();
		cout << "Action\tBucket 1\tBucket 2\tBucket 3\n";
		cout << Log.getaction() << "\t" << bucket.getbk1() << "\t" << bucket.getbk2() << "\t" << bucket.getbk3() << endl;
		cout << "Please choose the bucket to empty: ";
		cin >> from;
		cout << endl << "Please choose the bucket to store the water: ";
		cin >> to;
		cout << endl;
		finish = bucket.process(from, to);
		break;
case -1: 	cout << "Action\tBucket 1\tBucket 2\tBucket 3\n";
		cout << Log.getaction() << "\t" << bucket.getbk1() << "\t" << bucket.getbk2() << "\t" << bucket.getbk3() << endl;
		cout << "Please choose the bucket to empty: ";
		cin >> from;
		cout << endl << "Please choose the bucket to store the water: ";
		cin >> to;
		cout << endl;
		finish = bucket.process(from, to);
		break;

what can I do to solve it?

[Bazzy]

add braces to keep 'in' in a smaller scope:

case 1:	
{
    ofstream in(filename, ios::app);
    //...
}
break;

[khms]

Thanks a lot