if

IF command

The IF command makes it possible to execute some commands conditionally. The format of the command is:

IF condition THEN
 commands
[ ELSEIF condition THEN
  commands
]*
[ ELSE 
 commands ]  
ENDIF

The ELSEIF part is conditional, need not present and there can be many of it in a single IF command. Similarly the ELSE part is also optional but there can only be one ELSE part.

Note that the keyword ELSEIF is a single keyword and it is syntactically incorrect to write ELSE IF in two words.

The condition can be any expression that evaluates to a boolean value. There is no automatic conversion from non boolean values to boolean value.