ELSEIF

[AV1611]

Question:

If I do a clause like this:

IF a...
elseif b...
else c...

and a, b, and c are ALL true,

Does it do a, then ignore b & c?

I need it to do only the first true it find, not all of them...

Thanks.

[poirot]

Yes. [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":smile:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smile.gif\" /]

[.josh]

yes, because elseif implies that the if was FALSE. else implies that the if (or elseif) was FALSE.

if (if this is true) {
do this
} elseif (since the above was not true, check if this is true. if it is true) {
do this
} else {
since the above was not true, do this
}

the difference between elseif and else is that else will be executed no matter what, if the if is false, whereas the elseif will only be executed if the if is false and the elseif is true. but elseif and/or else will not be executed if the if is true.

[Barand]

[!--quoteo(post=381549:date=Jun 8 2006, 08:09 PM:name=Crayon Violent)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Crayon Violent @ Jun 8 2006, 08:09 PM) [snapback]381549[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
the difference between elseif and else is that else will be executed no matter what, if the if is false, whereas the elseif will only be executed if the if is false and the elseif is true. but elseif and/or else will not be executed if the if is true.
[/quote]

I think I preferred Poirot's answer :-)

[.josh]

i give you a cookie if you say it three times fast [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/laugh.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":laugh:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"laugh.gif\" /]

[AV1611]

LOL

YES...that was the answer I was looking for...

I just wanted to make sure I didn't need to add some safety net, because I am doing a script that would be devastating if the ELSE executed after the IF had already executed...

:X

[Barand]

It was easily verifiable by adding an echo statement in each of the if/elseif bits.

[AV1611]

Yea, I thought of that after I had already done this thread :?