November 2002
Beginner
432 pages
11h 44m
English
Content preview from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition
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Other Forms of Decision Making
Most languages support additional kinds of decision-making statements. Virtually every language in existence uses the If statement as well as the Else option.
Table 8.1 lists three additional operators that work with the comparison operators you already know. These operators, called the logical operators, combine multiple decisions into one If statement.
| Operator | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|
| And | If (A > B) And (C < D) | Produces a true result if both sides of the And are true. Therefore, A must be greater than B, And C must be less than D. Otherwise, the expression produces a false result. |
| Or | If (A > B) Or (C < D) | Produces a true result if either side of the Or is true. Therefore, A must be greater ... |