PERL/C2/Conditional-statements/English-timed

Visual Cue	Narration
00.01	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on if and if-else conditional statements in Perl.
00.07	In this tutorial, we will learn about;
00.09	if statement and
00.11	if-else statement in Perl
00.12	I am using Ubuntu Linux12.04 operating system and Perl 5.14.2
00.20	I will also be using the gedit Text Editor.
00.24	You can use any text editor of your choice.
00.28	You should have basic knowledge of Variables and Comments in Perl.
00.33	Knowledge of for, foreach , while and do-while loops in Perl will be an added advantage.
00.40	Please go through the relevant spoken tutorials on the spoken tutorial website.
00.45	Perl provides the following conditional statements -
00.49	if
00.50	if-else
00.51	if-elsif-else and
00.53	switch
00.54	In this tutorial, we'll cover if and If-else statements
00.59	if statement in Perl can be used
01.01	to execute a piece of code only when a specified condition is satisfied.
01.07	The syntax of if conditional statement is as follows
01.11	if space open bracket condition close bracket space Open curly bracket
01.19	Enter
01.20	Piece of code semicolon, to be executed when the condition is true
01.25	Enter, Close curly bracket
01.29	The code inside the if statement will be executed only when the condition is true.
01.36	Now let us look at an example of if statement.
01.40	Open the Terminal and type
01.43	gedit conditionalBlocks dot pl space &(ampersand )
01.49	and press Enter
01.52	This will open the conditionalBlocks.pl file in gedit.
01.57	Type the following piece of code as displayed on the screen.
02.02	Here we have specified a condition for if which checks the value of variable count.
02.09	Note the equal to equal to sign here. This is the comparison operator.
02.15	The condition $count equal to equal to 5 is checked against the value of variable count.
02.23	When it is equal to 5, the code within the if block will get executed.
02.28	Now, press ctrl+s to save the file.
02.32	Then switch to the terminal.
02.36	Make sure that you are in the directory in which you have saved your file.
02.41	Type the following to check for any compilation or syntax error -
02.46	perl hyphen c conditionalBlocks dot pl
02.53	and press Enter.
02.55	The following line will be displayed on the terminal window
02.59	conditionalBlocks.pl syntax OK
03.04	As there is no compilation or syntax error, we will execute the Perl script by typing -
03.10	perl conditionalBlocks dot pl
03.14	and press Enter
03.16	The following output will be shown on terminal.
03.19	I am inside if statement
03.23	Switch back to gedit
03.26	Alternately, we can write the above if statement as-
03.31	print space double quotes I am inside if statement slash n close double quotes space if open bracket dollar count space equal to equal to space 5 close bracket semicolon.
03.57	Now, let us look at if-else statement.
04.01	This statement is used when user wants to execute
04.06	one piece of code when the condition is true and
04.09	another piece of code when the condition is false
04.13	The syntax for if-else condition is as follows -
04.17	if space open bracket condition close bracket space open curly bracket Press Enter.
04.27	piece of code semicolon
04.29	to be executed when if condition is true,
04.32	Press Enter
04.34	close curly bracket space else space open curly bracket Enter
04.41	another piece of code semicolon
04.43	to be executed when if condition is false
04.47	Press Enter close curly bracket
04.51	Now again, go to the conditionalBlocks.pl file which we have already created in gedit.
04.58	Assign 4 to count variable then at the end of the if block type space
05.07	else
05.09	space open curly bracket press Enter
05.14	print space double quotes I am inside else statement slash n close double quotes semicolon
05.30	Press Enter and close curly bracket.
05.34	Here, 4 is assigned to variable $count.
05.38	As the value of count variable does not match 5,
05.43	the code within the if block will not get execute
05.47	instead the code within the else block will get execute.
05.52	Now press Ctrl+S to save the file.
05.56	Now switch to terminal.
05.59	and type perl hyphen c conditionalBlocks dot pl to check for any compilation or syntax error
06.11	now, press Enter
06.13	The following line will be displayed on the terminal
06.17	conditionalBlocks.pl syntax OK
06.20	As there is no compilation or syntax error, we will now execute the Perl script.
06.27	Type perl conditionalBlocks dot pl
06.33	and press Enter
06.35	The following output will be shown on terminal.
06.39	I am inside else statement
06.44	Let us summarize.
06.46	In this tutorial, we have learnt -
06.49	if and
06.50	if-else conditional statements in Perl
06.53	using sample programs.
06.55	Here is assignment for you -
06.57	Print “It is an open source language”
07.01	when the variable declared has value 'Perl'
07.04	otherwise print “It's a proprietary language”
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08.00	Hope you enjoyed this Perl tutorial.
08.04	This is Amol Brahmankar signing off.
08.06	Thanks for joining.

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