Programming in C, 2nd Edition

5

Decision Statements

Chapter Outline

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The if Statement

5.3 The if–else Statement

5.4 Nested if–else Statement

5.5 if-else-if Ladder Statement

5.6 The break Statement

5.7 The continue Statement

5.8 The goto Statement

5.9 The switch Statement

5.10 Nested switch Case

5.11 The switch Case and Nested ifs

5.1 INTRODUCTION

A program is nothing but the execution of one or more instructions sequentially in the order in which they come into sight. This process is analogous to reading the text and figures that appear on the page of a notebook. In the monolithic program, the instructions are executed sequentially in the order in which they appear in the program. Quite often, it is desirable in a program to alter the sequence of the ...