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Visual Basic and Algorithmic Thinking for the Complete Beginner
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Visual Basic and Algorithmic Thinking for the Complete Beginner

by Aristides Bouras
June 2024
Beginner
976 pages
16h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 16 The Single-Alternative Decision Structure

16.1 The Single-Alternative Decision Structure

This is the simplest decision control structure. It includes a statement or block of statements on the “True” path only, as presented in the following flowchart fragment, given in general form.

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If Boolean_Expression evaluates to True, the statement, or block of statements, of the structure is executed; otherwise, the statements are skipped.

The general form of the Visual Basic statement is

If Boolean_Expression Then
A statement or block of statements
End If

Note that the statement or block of statements is indented by 2 spaces.

In the next example, ...

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