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Conditional Statements
• Now we will examine programming statements
that allow us to:
 make decisions
 perform commands based on those decisions
• Chapter 5 focuses on:
 boolean expressions
 conditional statements
 comparing data

Outline
The if Statement and Conditions
Other Conditional Statements
Comparing Data

Flow of Control
• Unless specified otherwise, the order of statement
execution through a method is linear: one
statement after another in sequence
• Some programming statements allow us to:
 decide whether or not to execute a particular statement
 execute a statement over and over, repetitively
• These decisions are based on boolean expressions
(or conditions) that evaluate to true or false
• The order of statement execution is called the flow
of control

Conditional Statements
• A conditional statement lets us choose which
statement will be executed next
• Therefore they are sometimes called selection
statements
• Conditional statements give us the power to
make basic decisions
• The Java conditional statements are the:
 IF statement
 SWITCH statement

The IF Statement
• Looks like the following
if ( condition )
{
statement1;
statement2;
}
else
{
statement3;
statement4;
}
• If the condition is true, statements 1 & 2 are
executed; if the condition is false, statements 3
& 4 are executed
• One section or the other will be executed, but not
both

The IF Statement
• The else { … } section is optional
 If we don't need to do anything on a false decision, we
can leave it out
• Also, if there is only 1 line of code to do in each
section, we can leave out the curly brackets { }
• For example:
if ( age < 18 )
System.out.println(“Too young to come in”);

Logic of an IF statement
condition
evaluated
True block
true false
False block

Block Statements
• Several statements can be grouped together into a
block statement delimited by braces
• A block statement can be used wherever a
statement is called for in the Java syntax rules
if (total > MAX)
{
System.out.println ("Error!!");
errorCount++;
}

Block Statements
• In an IF statement, the if portion, or the else
portion, or both, could be block statements
if (total > MAX)
{
errorCount++;
}
else
{
System.out.println ("Total: " + total);
current = total*2;
}

Boolean Expressions
• A condition often uses one of Java's equality
operators or relational operators, which all return
boolean results:
== equal to
!= not equal to
< less than
> greater than
<= less than or equal to
>= greater than or equal to
• Note the difference between the equality operator
(==) and the assignment operator (=)

The if Statement
• An example of an if statement:
if (sum > MAX)
delta = sum - MAX;
System.out.println ("The sum is " + sum);
• First the condition is evaluated -- the value of sum
is either greater than the value of MAX, or it is not
• If the condition is true, the assignment statement
is executed -- if it isn’t, it is skipped.
• Either way, the call to println is executed next

Indentation
• The statement controlled by the if statement is
indented to indicate that relationship
• The use of a consistent indentation style makes a
program easier to read and understand
• Although it makes no difference to the compiler,
proper indentation is crucial
"Always code as if the person who ends up
maintaining your code will be a violent
psychopath who knows where you live."
-- Martin Golding

The if Statement
• What do the following statements do?
if (top >= MAXIMUM)
top = 0;
if (total != stock + warehouse)
inventoryError = true;
• The precedence of the arithmetic operators is
higher than the precedence of the equality and
relational operators

Logical Operators: Combining
Comparisons Together
• Boolean expressions can also use the following
logical operators:
! Logical NOT
&& Logical AND
|| Logical OR
• They all take boolean operands and produce
boolean results
• Logical NOT is a unary operator (it operates on
one operand)
• Logical AND and logical OR are binary operators
(each operates on two operands)

Logical NOT
• The logical NOT operation is also called logical
negation or logical complement
• If some boolean condition a is true, then !a is
false; if a is false, then !a is true
• Logical expressions can be shown using a truth
table
truefalse
falsetrue
!aa

Logical AND Operator
• The logical AND expression
a && b
is true if both a and b are true, and false otherwise
• Example:
if ( (x > 10) && (x < 20) )
• The whole condition is true if x > 10 AND x < 20
AT THE SAME TIME!

Logical OR Operator
• The logical OR expression
a || b
is true if a or b or both are true, and false
otherwise
• Example:
if ( (ch == 'a') || (ch == 'A') )
• The whole condition is true if ch is either the letter
'a' OR the letter 'A'.

Logical Operators
• Expressions that use logical operators can form
complex conditions
if (total < MAX+5 && !found)
System.out.println ("Processing…");
• All logical operators have lower precedence than
the relational operators
• Logical NOT has higher precedence than logical
AND and logical OR
• When in doubt, use parentheses to enforce the
order of evaluation

Short-Circuited Operators
• The processing of logical AND and logical OR is
“short-circuited”
• This is known as lazy evaluation
• If the left operand is sufficient to determine the
result, the right operand is not evaluated
• This type of processing must be used carefully
if (count != 0 && total/count > MAX)
System.out.println ("Testing…");

Indentation Revisited
• Remember that indentation is for the human
reader, and is ignored by the computer
if (total > MAX)
errorCount++;
Despite what is implied by the indentation, the
increment will occur whether the condition is
true or not

Nested if Statements
• The statement executed as a result of an if
statement or else clause could be another if
statement
• These are called nested if statements
• See MinOfThree.java (page 219)
• An else clause is matched to the last unmatched
if (no matter what the indentation implies)
• Braces can be used to specify the if statement to
which an else clause belongs

The SWITCH Statement
• The switch statement provides another way to
decide which statement to execute next
• The switch statement evaluates an expression,
then attempts to match the result to one of several
possible cases
• Each case contains a value and a list of
statements
• The flow of control transfers to statement
associated with the first case value that matches

The SWITCH Statement
• The general syntax of a switch statement is:
switch ( expression )
{
case value1 :
statement-list1
case value2 :
statement-list2
case value3 :
statement-list3
case ...
}
switch
and
case
are
reserved
words
If expression
matches value2,
control jumps
to here

The switch Statement
• Often a break statement is used as the last
statement in each case's statement list
• A break statement causes control to transfer to
the end of the switch statement
• If a break statement is not used, the flow of
control will continue into the next case
• Sometimes this may be appropriate, but often we
want to execute only the statements associated
with one case

switch (option)
{
case 'A':
aCount++;
break;
case 'B':
bCount++;
break;
case 'C':
cCount++;
break;
}
• An example of a switch statement:

• A switch statement can have an optional default
case
• The default case has no associated value and
simply uses the reserved word default
• If the default case is present, control will transfer
to it if no other case value matches
• If there is no default case, and no other value
matches, control falls through to the statement
after the switch

• The expression of a switch statement must result
in an integral type, meaning an integer (byte,
short, int, long) or a char
• It cannot be a boolean value or a floating point
value (float or double)
• The implicit boolean condition in a switch
statement is equality
• You cannot perform relational checks with a
switch statement
• See GradeReport.java (page 225)

Outline
The if Statement and Conditions
Other Conditional Statements
Comparing Data

Comparing Data
• When comparing data using boolean expressions,
it's important to understand the nuances of certain
data types
• Let's examine some key situations:
 Comparing floating point values for equality
 Comparing characters
 Comparing strings (alphabetical order)
 Comparing object vs. comparing object references

Comparing Float Values
• You should rarely use the equality operator (==)
when comparing two floating point values (float
or double)
• Two floating point values are equal only if their
underlying binary representations match exactly
• Computations often result in slight differences that
may be irrelevant
• In many situations, you might consider two
floating point numbers to be "close enough" even
if they aren't exactly equal

Comparing Float Values
• To determine the equality of two floats, you may
want to use the following technique:
if (Math.abs(f1 - f2) < TOLERANCE)
System.out.println ("Essentially equal");
• If the difference between the two floating point
values is less than the tolerance, they are
considered to be equal
• The tolerance could be set to any appropriate
level, such as 0.000001

Comparing Characters
• As we've discussed, Java character data is based
on the Unicode character set
• Unicode establishes a particular numeric value for
each character, and therefore an ordering
• We can use relational operators on character data
based on this ordering
• For example, the character '+' is less than the
character 'J' because it comes before it in the
Unicode character set
• Appendix C provides an overview of Unicode

Comparing Characters
• In Unicode, the digit characters (0-9) are
contiguous and in order
• Likewise, the uppercase letters (A-Z) and
lowercase letters (a-z) are contiguous and in order
97 through 122a – z
65 through 90A – Z
48 through 570 – 9
Unicode ValuesCharacters

Comparing Strings
• Remember that in Java a character string is an
object
• This means that you should not use == to test if
two strings have the same value
• The equals method can be called with strings to
determine if two strings contain exactly the same
characters in the same order
• The equals method returns a boolean result
if (name1.equals(name2))
System.out.println ("Same name");

Comparing Strings
• We cannot use the relational operators to compare
strings
• The String class contains a method called
compareTo to determine if one string comes
before another
• A call to name1.compareTo(name2)
 returns zero if name1 and name2 are equal (contain the
same characters)
 returns a negative value if name1 is less than name2
 returns a positive value if name1 is greater than name2

Comparing Strings
if (name1.compareTo(name2) < 0)
System.out.println (name1 + "comes first");
else
if (name1.compareTo(name2) == 0)
System.out.println ("Same name");
else
System.out.println (name2 + "comes first");
• Because comparing characters and strings is
based on a character set, it is called a
lexicographic ordering

Lexicographic Ordering
• Lexicographic ordering is not strictly alphabetical
when uppercase and lowercase characters are
mixed
• For example, the string "Great" comes before the
string "fantastic" because all of the uppercase
letters come before all of the lowercase letters in
Unicode
• Also, short strings come before longer strings
with the same prefix (lexicographically)
• Therefore "book" comes before "bookcase"

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