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Re: Text and multiple calculations in an IF condition

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• Subject: [mg101029] Re: [mg100958] Text and multiple calculations in an IF condition
• From: peter <plindsay.0 at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:06:44 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200906190047.UAA18647@smc.vnet.net>

the word you need to search for in the documentation is "comment", as
in "commenting code". Typing "comment" into the documentation centre
gives a fewf links. You then choose "The Syntax of the Mathematica
Language (Mathematica Tutorial)" and near the top of that page you'll
see:

(*comment*)	input to be ignored





2009/6/19 Pascal Schulthess <mail at pascal-schulthess.de>:
> 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.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Pascal
>
>



--
Peter Lindsay

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    • From: Pascal Schulthess <mail@pascal-schulthess.de>