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JavaDecisionMaking

Decision making structures have one or more conditions to be evaluated or tested by the
program, along with a statement or statements that are to be executed if the condition is
determined to be true, and optionally, other statements to be executed if the condition is
determinedtobefalse.
Following is the general form of a typical decision making structure found in most of the
programminglanguages:

Javaprogramminglanguageprovidesfollowingtypesofdecisionmakingstatements.Clickthe
followinglinkstochecktheirdetail.
Statement

Description

if

Anifstatementconsistsofaboolean
expressionfollowedbyoneormorestatements.

statement

Anifstatementcanbefollowedbyan
optionalelsestatement,whichexecuteswhen
thebooleanexpressionisfalse.

if...else
statement

nested
statements

switch
statement

if

Youcanuseoneiforelseifstatementinside
anotheriforelseifstatement(s).

Aswitchstatementallowsavariabletobe
testedforequalityagainstalistofvalues.

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The?:Operator:
We have covered conditional operator ? : in previous chapter which can be used to
replaceif...elsestatements.Ithasthefollowinggeneralform:
Exp1?Exp2:Exp3;

WhereExp1,Exp2,andExp3areexpressions.Noticetheuseandplacementofthecolon.
Todeterminethevalueofwholeexpression,initiallyexp1isevaluated
Ifthevalueofexp1istrue,thenthevalueofExp2willbethevalueofthewholeexpression.
Ifthevalueofexp1isfalse,thenExp3isevaluatedanditsvaluebecomesthevalueofthe
entireexpression.

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