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VERSIONlatest Condition for the program.

IF

NAME

if - Condition for the program.

SYNOPSIS

if expression then statements elseif expression then statements … else statements *endif

DESCRIPTION

This statement is used to control what part of a program is executed. One can use an "if" condition at the beginning of a loop. The function adds a condition for the program. It will execute this part of the program if the condition is respected.

if expression is a string with value true, then if is true.

if expression is a string with value false, then if is false.

if expression is a string and the number of the string is not 0 than its true else its false. If any characters under than a number is in the string, it will not be ccompared to a number.

EXAMPLES

if x == 1 then
        "x=1\n";
elseif x == 2 then
        "x=2\n";
else
        "x=?\n";
endif

if x == 1 then
    "x=1\n";
elseif x == 2 then
    "x=2\n";
else
    "x=?\n";
endif

AUTHOR

Written by Pierre Laplante and Caroline Laplante, <laplante@sednove.com>