Re: Text and multiple calculations in an IF condition
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- Subject: [mg100998] Re: Text and multiple calculations in an IF condition
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:48:41 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>
Pascal Schulthess wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a small problem, and haven't found any solution yet. So I hope you > can help me. > > I'd like to have describing text, comments and multiple calculations when > one condition is true, and others when it's false. > > For example: > > If[a>b, > do something here; > and something else here; > insert a text here; > else > do something; > and more; > ] > > As far as I tried this is not possible with the if condition provided?! > But I also think this quite easy to do, if you know how to. Here is the proper syntax for If, straight from the Documentation. If[condition,t,f] gives t if condition evaluates to True, and f if it evaluates to False. Use a comma to separate t and f, not "else", like this. If[a>b, do something here; and something else here; insert a text here, do something; and more; ] For example, f[x_] := If[x > 3, Print[x^2]; Print["Hello"], Print[x^3]; Print["Goodbye"]] f[2] 8 Goodbye f[4] 16 Hello -- Helen Read University of VErmont