Having trouble understanding if and if else statements.

[BurritoSniper]

This is for a homework assignment and I'm very new to coding

I was wondering if you were allowed to make two if statements, using the Boolean "&&" symbol, where the statements were similar in one aspect but different in another. The code keeps giving me an error when I add the if else statement, even though the statements look for different requirements. I have to add a lot more requirements and if else statements, however I can't even get the first part to work. Thank you for any help

#include <stdio.h>


int main()
{
  int n,m;
 scanf("%d", &n);
 scanf("%d", &m);
  
  if (n >= 0 && n-m < 0)
  {
    printf("A\n");
  }
  
  if else (n >= 0 && n-m > 0)
  {
    printf("B\n");
  }
 
  else 
  {
    printf("failed code\n");
  }
  
  return 0;
}

[Matticus]

if else (n >= 0 && n-m > 0)

You have the "if" and "else" reversed.

if( /*...*/ )
{
    /*...*/
}
else if( /*...*/ )
{
    /*...*/
}
else
{
    /*...*/
}

[BurritoSniper]

Wow that's embarrassing. Honestly I thought if it was glowing blue then I had written it right and just completely overlooked that time and time again. I've been looking up solutions for 45 minutes now thinking it was a problem with what's inside the statement, not the statement itself. Thank you

[Matticus]

You're welcome.

The syntax highlighting only means you spelled the keywords correctly, not that they're in the correct order.

Welcome to the frustrating world of debugging

[christophergray]

What error message did you get from your linter? The one below, from gcc, is a little more helpful than the one from cppcheck. My editor showed the one from gcc with a red squiggly underline under the else. Good tools help.

christopher@water:~/cboard$ cppcheck ifelse.c
Checking ifelse.c...
[ifelse.c:15]: (error) syntax error
christopher@water:~/cboard$ gcc ifelse.c
ifelse.c: In function ‘main’:
ifelse.c:15:6: error: expected ‘(’ before ‘else’
if else (n >= 0 && n-m > 0)
^
(The green arrow points to else in my console)