Thread: if conditions

Hi, pertaining to 'if conditions' and all its statements like "else, else if, if", if one condition of whole conditions thats written in the script(lets say there's more than two "if" conditions) achieved then the program will not continue to another condition however if there's another "if condition" that the program can achieve it.. right? (see the example below to be more simply-btw the code is just for understanding so don't focus of what it prints)

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
	int num=2,i=0;
	if(num<3)
		printf("hello");
	else if (num<5)
		printf("hh");
	else
		printf("No");
	return 0;
}

In my case, the code achieves the first "if" ofcourse, because the variable num is smaller than 3, so it prints on my screen "hello", however we can easily see it also achieves the second "else if", but the code doesn't print "hh" in my screen and thats weird for me!! because from my knowledge the "else if" and "if" equivalent to each other so in my case the program must enter the second condition also...am I right? if not so, then can anyone please me explain what're the differences between them? thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by laserlight

It is conventional to write an if-else chain the way that you did (though I would use braces anyway even though they are unnecessary here), but allow me to rewrite the same if-else chain:

Code:

if (num < 3) {
    printf("hello");
} else {
    if (num < 5) {
        printf("hh");
    } else {
        printf("No");
    }
}

Now, it should be obvious why the second condition cannot be entered should control enter the if branch of the first if statement: it lies within the else branch of the first if statement!

Very clearly-on touch, thank you!

Originally Posted by RyanC

Very clearly-on touch, thank you!

Also, isn't the if-else logic that laserlight visually represented such that IF relational expression is TRUE, then following statement executes; ELSE, next relational expression is evaluated. In short: the system doesn't know to evaluate multiple expressions in the first IF statement; hence, it stops executing when first expression evaluates to TRUE.