Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C++ Programming Language and C++11 to C++23 Standards

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S. DmitrovićModern C++ for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9274-7_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. The C++ language also comes with some built-in statements. We will start with the selection statements.

Selection Statements

Selection statements allow us to execute the appropriate statements based on some given condition.

if Statement

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