Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

228 CHAPTER 5 Flow of Control,Part 1: Selection

5.5 Sequential and Nested if/else Statements

When you need the results of one if statement’s processing before you can

evaluate the next condition, you can write multiple if statements either

sequentially or nested within other if statements.

5.5.1 Sequential if/else Statements

Finding the Minimum or Maximum Values

To illustrate sequential if statements, let’s look at the problem of finding the

smallest of three numbers.

In Chapter 3, we found the smallest of three numbers using the min

method of the Math class. We first found the smaller of two numbers, then

found the smaller of that result and the third ...