Rapid-Q Documentation by William Yu (c)1999 | Appendix C: Conditions

# Introduction to Condition Statements

  Conditional statements offer the ability to execute code for which the condition is satisfied. This is probably one of the first things you learn in programming, besides the usual.
  IF .. THEN .. ELSE
  There are 2 ways to use IF .. THEN .. ELSE. You can place your statement on one single line like so:

          IF I > 100 THEN PRINT "I is greater than 100"

  Or split it up like so:

          IF I > 100 THEN
            PRINT "I is greater than 100"
          END IF

  As you can see, I > 100 is a condition, as long as this is satisfied, the code gets executed, if not then that piece of code is skipped. A condition is satisfied whenever the expression evaluates to any non-zero number. Which also means that this is valid:

         I = 100
         IF I THEN
           PRINT "Condition satisfied"
         ELSE
           PRINT "Condition is not satisfied"
         END IF

  Use ELSEIF whenever you have multiple conditions that you want satisfied:

         IF I > 10 AND I < 20 THEN
            '' do stuff
         ELSEIF I > 55 THEN
            '' do stuff
         ELSE
            '' do stuff
         END IF

  Sometimes it helps to use SELECT CASE instead of all these ELSEIFs, which we'll cover next.
  SELECT CASE .. END SELECT
  Select cases are usually implemented when you have a lot of conditions that you want to test for. It's really not useful if you only have 2 or 3 conditions, but no one's stopping you from using it. There are no special cases in using SELECT CASEs in Rapid-Q, so everything you learned in QBasic, can be implemented here as well.

          SELECT CASE Expression
            CASE 1
              '' Do stuff
            CASE 5
              '' Do stuff
            CASE ELSE
              '' No conditions satisfied, do stuff
          END SELECT

  It probably involves less typing, but there are many other useful purposes, for example, range testing becomes so much easier:

          SELECT CASE Expression
            CASE 1 TO 4, 10 TO 20
              '' Do stuff
            CASE 100 TO 150
              '' Do stuff
            CASE IS > 200
              '' Do stuff
          END SELECT

  As you can see, you can have multiple test conditions by separating each with a comma. I think you can figure out how the IS keyword is used.

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