Editing if

The if [[condition]]al construct allows a [[statement]] or [[block]] of code to be [[condition]]ally executed based on the result of a [[boolean]] expression. The [[branch]] within the [[condition]], only gets executed if the [[expression]] evaluates to a [[true]] value. The if [[condition]] its simplest form is: == if (CONDITION) STATEMENT == For example: {{{ if (guess == 6) print "Wow! That was a lucky guess." }}} == There are no then or endif cocomponents == Note that the [[awk]] extraction and reporting language does not utilize then or endif syntactical cocomponents. == Using squiggly braces to conditionally execute a branch containing more than one statement == In order to [[conditional]]ly execute more than one [[statement]] within a conditional [[branch]], it is necessary to enclose the [[statement]]s within squiggly [[brace]]s: {{{ if (guess == 6) { print "Wow! That was a lucky guess." # Multiple statements in a conditional block prize = 30000 } }}} === The else syntactical cocomponent The else [[syntactical cocomponent]] may be used as part of an if conditional construct to allow one of two [[branch]]es of code to be conditionally executed depending on the value of a boolean expression. {{{ if (EXPRESSION) ACTION; else ALTERNATIVE ACTION; }}} The following example shows blocks of code being used within an if and else conditional construct. The code within the first block gets executed if the condition is true, otherwise the code within the second block is executed: {{{ if ($guess == 6) print 'Wow! That was a lucky guess!' else print 'Sorry! Your guess was wrong!' }}} == Nested conditional constructs == It is possible to created nested conditional structures:

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