Thread: Parentheses in IF statements.

Code:

if (something something something)
Do everything up to the first semicolon ;  <- Only this line is executed in the if statement

//or

if (something something something)
{
do stuff;
as;
much;
as;
you;
want;
} //End of the if statement. If the if statement was true, it does everything upto this point

..

Code:

while (--a >= 0)
{
    
	
	f++;

	if (f >= g)
	{
		f = 0;

	}//End of if


	h1 = 2;//This is always ran in while loop, it is not in any if's

	if (m)
	{

	h2 = 2;

	}//End of 2nd if.

}//End of while-loop

When you don't use brackets around an if statement only the next statement is considered to be in it. There for if your if statement

Code:

if (f >= g)

was false, then f would not be set equal to zero, but everything after that would still happen, like h1 would be set to 2.

Terminology: braces are {}, brackets are [] (unless further qualified) and parentheses are ().

Braces, that's the one I was looking for.

... what a ball-buster.

Though, I've heard on many occasions braces called brackets and brackets called square-brackets.

...and how the hell do I post braces and brackets outside of code tags? I keep getting the "Format your code properly" error. There must be something I can uncheck or something.

I usually put an empty set of code tags in my post.

[code][/code]

Ah that's a good idea. Thanks.

Is there a way to implement syntax coloring within

Code:

dfsfdsdfsdf

, that would be great...

There are some tools that will generate BBcode markup for syntax highlighting code. You put the code there, transform it, and copy the result into the post.

There's also the build-in PHP syntax coloring, which you can access with the php tag, but it only really works for PHP, and doesn't highlight many of C++'s keywords.