January 15, 2014
If and Else Statement
While writing a program, we encounter such situations where we need to decide whether a certain block of code should be executed or not if a certain condition is met. For this purpose, we make use of If and Else statement, which is known as conditional statement. A sample code is given below with its explanation.
using System; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int number = 2; if (number == 1) { Console.WriteLine("The number is 1."); } else { Console.WriteLine("Unknown number."); } } } }
In the above code, we have assigned a value 1 to the number variable. With the help of If and Else statement, we have made a check for a certain condition before executing the code. If the number value is 2, then the line #13 will be executed else line #17 will be executed.
Output:
Unknown number.