[tutorial] If - elsif - else statments

[Tony]

Some basics you cant program without - If statments

An if statment is a command that compares 2 (or more) values and outputs based on the result.

The only program you can make without an if stament is "Hello World" one. In the rest, you have some values to compare.

code:

if tony = "cool" then put "tony is cool" elsif tony = "not cool" then put "error, something wrong with your program" else put "something something, blah blah blah" end if

this statment compares the value of variable tony to different values and if one of them matches, it outputs a result. If none are matched, it outputs the commands under else

You can have as many elsifs as you'd like. Just keep on adding them.

Also you dont have to have elsif or else. You can have both, or just 1 or none. You always need to start with an if though.

Someone once asked the difference between case and if and as far as I can see... If statments offer you much more control. You're not limited to just = comparisment. You can have much, much more


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you can use a combination of those to check for very spesific conditions.

code:

if ((tony = "cool") or (dan = "cool")) and (numposts >= 1000) then put "compsci has over 1000 posts and a cool admin" end if

As you can see if first checks if ether tony or dan is cool. And if one of those is true, the overall statment is true. Then it checks if number of posts is more or equals to a 1000 and returns true/false for that. Now if both left and right side of "and" are true, then the overall statment is true.

confusing, isn't it? Thats why I used brakets to show each individual comparisment. You dont have to use that, but it just shows you how your if statment is structured and keeps trouble away when you have a bunch of "or" and "and" statments.

Hope this clears things up.

[Namis]

this is my code, im new so bare with me :\

var one:string
var two:string
put " Yes or No? "
if one = "Yes" then
put " Good Choice! "
elsif No = "No" then
put " Bad Choice! "

Im getting an error in

elsif No = "No" Then

Whats wrong? Thanks

[krishon]

maybe u shuld add an input line........

[Tony]

well first of all, you didnt declear "No"... I think you wanted to use variable named "one" instead since you used it in

if one = "Yes" then...

Now there's soo many things wrong with this program... I donno where to start.

Lets start with bigest and most obvious mistakes:

The variable you're using in your ifstatment has no value. You should promp to enter their choice and assign input to the variable

code:

var choice:string put "enter choice" get choice put choice

You should read up a tutorial on I/O (input/output for more details).

also variable named "one" doesnt make much sence. one is a number, so a line "if one = "Yes" then" doesnt make much sence. I know it would work ether way, but if you would name your variables appropriatly, it would be just easier for yourself to understand how your own code works.

Also you forgot to end your if statment.

Here's how your program should have looked like:

code:

var choice:string put "enter choice, yes/no" get choice if choice="yes" then put "you have picked yes" else put "you did not pick yes" end if

I hope that helped - and dont worry... You'll get better with practice and understanding of how code works - just read some tutorials we got here and look around the site 8)

[krishon]

lol, ye tony put everything in a nutshell

[theguru]

this tutorial has everything you need to know about the if statement. i was wondering why turing has elsif instead of elseif. isn't that wierd.

[[Gandalf]]

Quite a few programming languages have it like that actually.
I think they reason behind it is to make a better differentiation between 'else' and 'if' so that you know it does something else, and so that newbs don't mistake it for and 'else' preceding an 'if'.

[wtd]

"else if" is a way of having multiple clauses without actually having anything more complex than "if" and "else".

[[Gandalf]]

Yeah, I forgot about that.
It wouldn't work quite well in Turing though:

code:

var word : string get word if word (1) = 'a' then     put "yes" else     if word (1) = 'b' then         put "no"     else         if word (1) = 'c' then             put "this is even deeper.."         end if     end if end if

[MysticVegeta]

Tony wrote:

code:

elsif tony = "not cool" then put "error, something wrong with your program"

oh my god LOL really humorous!

[xXInsanityXx]

This is an excellent Tut, for the super newbs, and gets them into basic programming logic. helped me a lot as a beginer thanks a lot

[Nose_Pilot44]

keep getting an error. says "Syntax error at 'var' expected ':'" and it says "syntax error at then"

code:

var num1 var num2 get num1 get num2 if num1 > num2 then put "Num1 is greater" elsif num2 > num1 then put "Num2 is greater" elsif num1 = num2 then put "They're equal" elsif then put "error! omgwtfbbq!" end if

[Mr. T]

code:

var num1 : int var num2 : int get num1 get num2 if num1 > num2 then     put "Num1 is greater" elsif num2 > num1 then     put "Num2 is greater" elsif num1 = num2 then     put "They're equal" else     put "error! omgwtfbbq!" end if

1) You were declaring the variables incorrectly
2) else covers every other option that doesn't fall under the if or elsif conditions

[DIIST]

'If's are nice but case statments become lot easier and faster when you are dealing for known values like yes and no or 1 and 0!

code:

var answer : string loop     put "Is compsci.ca cool?"     get answer     case answer of         label "Yes", "Y", "yes", "y" :             put "You are so right"             exit         label "No", "no", "n", "N" :             put "Are you crazy?"             exit         label :             put "You did not answer correctly!"     end case end loop

[Cervantes]

thuvs wrote:

yes and no or 1 and 0!

yes = 1
no = 0?

How about:
yes = true
no = false

Cases are nice, but less flexible than if statements.