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Latest revision as of 10:00, 13 June 2014

Title of script: Conditional Branching

Author: Anuradha Amrutkar

Keywords: if-then-else, select-case


Visual Cue
Narration
Slide Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Conditional Branching in Scilab.
Slide To practice this tutorial open the scilab console window on your computer
Slide We will discuss two types of Conditional constructs in Scilab that is the "if-then-else" construct and the "select-case conditional" construct.
Slide The if statement allows us to execute a group of statements if a given condition is satisfied.
Demonstration Let me give you an example:
 n = 42, 
 if (n == 42) then 
 disp("The number is forty two")
 end 

of if construct.

Narration Here '=' is the assignment operator, which assigns 42 to the variable n, and '==' is the equality operator, which checks for the equality between the right hand and the left hand side operands.
Narration In this case n and 42 and gives the result in Boolean.
Narration Here the comma after the first line is optional, Also the then keyword is optional.
Narration It can be replaced by a comma or a carriage return.
Narration The end keyword ends the "if" construct.
Narration On executing the script, we see the output as follows.
Narration So far we have seen how to execute a set of statements if a condition is true.
Narration Now we will see how to execute another set of statements if that condition is false or we may wish to check if some other condition is satisfied.
Demonstration We can do this by using 'else' or 'elseif' keyword respectively. Here is how we do it (the action is shown)
Demonstration In this example, 54 is assigned to a variable n and checked for both true condition using 'if' and false condition using 'else' as described:
Demonstration I will cut this paste in the scilab console hit enter


  n = 54, 
 if (n == 42) then 
   disp("The number is forty two")
 elseif (n == 54) then, 
   disp("The number is fifty four") 
 else 
   disp("The number is neither forty two nor fifty four")
 end
Demonstration You see the output (output is displayed).
Demonstration If you notice, the examples shown above are on multiple lines.
Narration They can also be written in a single line with proper semicolons and commas.
Demonstration I will cut this and paste in the scilab to execute hit enter
 x = 3; y = 5; z = 4; if x>5 then disp(x), elseif x>6 then disp(y), else disp(z), end
Narration The select statement allows to combine several branches in a clear and simple way.
Narration Depending on the value of a variable, it allows to perform the statement corresponding to the case keyword.
Narration There can be as many branches as required.
Narration Let us try with an example.
Demonstration We will assign 100 to a variable 'n' and check the cases 42, 54 and a default case represented by else cut paste hit enter
Demonstration n = 100,


 select n
   case 42
     disp("The number is forty two")
   case 54
     disp("The number is fifty four")
   else 
     disp("The number is neither forty two nor fifty four")
 end
Demonstration Here we see the output . (Shows the output)
Slide This brings us to the end of this spoken tutorial on Conditional Branching using Scilab.
Slide In this tutorial we have learnt the if - elseif - else statement and the select statement.
Slide There are many other functions in Scilab which will be covered in other spoken tutorials.
Slide Keep watching the Scilab links.
Slide Spoken Tutorials are part of the Talk to a Teacher project, supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT.
Slide More information on the same is available at http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro.

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