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Solidity Programming Essentials

You're reading from  Solidity Programming Essentials

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831383
Pages 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction to Blockchain, Ethereum, and Smart Contracts 2. Installing Ethereum and Solidity 3. Introducing Solidity 4. Global Variables and Functions 5. Expressions and Control Structures 6. Writing Smart Contracts 7. Functions, Modifiers, and Fallbacks 8. Exceptions, Events, and Logging 9. Truffle Basics and Unit Testing 10. Debugging Contracts 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

The if decision control


Solidity provides conditional code execution with the help of the if...else instructions. The general structure of if...else is as follows:

if (this condition/expression is true) {
Execute the instructions here
} 
else if (this condition/expression is true) {
   Execute the instructions here
} 
else {
   Execute the instructions here
}

if and if-else  are keywords in Solidity and they inform the compiler that they contain a decision control condition, for example, if (a > 10). Here, if contains a condition that can evaluate to either true or false.  If a > 10 evaluates to true then the code instructions that follow in the pair of double-brackets ({) and (}) should be executed.

else is also a keyword that provides an alternate path if none of the previous conditions are true. It also contains a decision control instruction and executes the code instructions if a > 10 tends to be true.

The following example shows the usage of 'IF'-'ELSE IF' - 'ELSE' conditions...

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