Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to C++ Programming Language and C++11 to C++20 Standards

© Slobodan Dmitrović 2020

S. DmitrovićModern C++ for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6047-0_16

16. Statements

Slobodan Dmitrović¹ 

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

Earlier, we described statements as commands, pieces of code that are executed in some order. Expressions ending with a semicolon are statements. C++ language comes with some built-in statements. We will start with the selection statements.

16.1 Selection Statements

Selection statements allow us to check to use conditions, and based on that condition, execute the appropriate statements.

16.1.1 if Statement

When we want to execute a statement or more statements based on some condition, we use the if-statement . if-statement has the format of:

if (condition) statement

The statement executes ...