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if BooleanExpression then
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If the Boolean expression evaluates to <tt>FALSE</tt>, the statement following the <tt>else</tt> will be performed. Note that you may not use a semicolon after the statement preceding the <tt>else</tt>. That causes the computer to treat it as a one-way selection, leaving it to wonder where the else came from.
 
If the Boolean expression evaluates to <tt>FALSE</tt>, the statement following the <tt>else</tt> will be performed. Note that you may not use a semicolon after the statement preceding the <tt>else</tt>. That causes the computer to treat it as a one-way selection, leaving it to wonder where the else came from.

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3Ca - IF (author: Tao Yue, state: unchanged)

The IF statement allows you to branch based on the result of a Boolean operation. The one-way branch format is:

if BooleanExpression then
  StatementIfTrue;

If the Boolean expression evaluates to true, the statement executes. Otherwise, it is skipped.

The IF statement accepts only one statement. If you would like to branch to a compound statement, you must use a begin-end block to enclose the statements:

if BooleanExpression then
begin
  Statement1;
  Statement2;
end;

There is also a two-way selection:

if BooleanExpression then
  StatementIfTrue
else
  StatementIfFalse;

Note there is no ; following the statement before the else, even for the case with compound statements.

if BooleanExpression then
begin
  Statement1;
  Statement2;
end
else
begin
  Statement3;
  Statement4;
end;


If the Boolean expression evaluates to FALSE, the statement following the else will be performed. Note that you may not use a semicolon after the statement preceding the else. That causes the computer to treat it as a one-way selection, leaving it to wonder where the else came from.

If you need multi-way selection, simply nest if statements:

if Condition1 then
  Statement1
else
  if Condition2 then
    Statement2
  else
    Statement3;

Be careful with nesting. Sometimes the computer won't do what you want it to do:

if Condition1 then
  if Condition2 then
    Statement2
else
  Statement1;

The else is always matched with the most recent if, so the computer interprets the preceding block of code as:

if Condition1 then
  if Condition2 then
    Statement2
  else
    Statement1;

You can get by with a null statement:

if Condition1 then
  if Condition2 then
    Statement2
  else
else
  Statement1;

Or you could use a begin-end block. But the best way to clean up the code would be to rewrite the condition.

if not Condition1 then
  Statement1
else
  if Condition2 then
    Statement2;

This example illustrates where the not operator comes in very handy. If Condition1 had been a Boolean like: (not(a < b) or (c + 3 > 6)) and g, reversing the expression would be more difficult than NOTting it.

Also notice how important indentation is to convey the logic of program code to a human, but the compiler ignores the indentation.

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