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RstrunkRstrunk 

If else in APEX

 

Does whitespace matter between the ELSE and IF keywords?  For example are the two code snips below the same logic wise?

 

if(condition){

}
else if(condition){

}
else{

}

 

if(condition){

}
else 
    if(condition){

}
else{

}

 

kiran2000kiran2000

no
souvik9086souvik9086

Output will be same. 

 

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Yoganand GadekarYoganand Gadekar

Both are same....
sfdcfoxsfdcfox

While this has already been answered a few times, perhaps it would be useful to know why. Apex Code, like Java (and C++, C#, etc.) use curly braces to delineate "blocks", such as functions, do-while loops, etc, which also affect "scope" (what data and methods are available in a given line of code), and uses semi-colons to delineate "statements", which are single units of work. Outside of strings, white space may be arbitrarily placed. You could also write your code like this:

 

if
    (
        condition1
    )
    {
        // condition1 true here
    }
    else
    if
        (
            condition2
        )
        {
            // condition2 true here
        }
        else
        {
           // neither condition1 or condition2 true here
        }

or even like this (assuming single-statement blocks):

 

if(cond1)doA();else if(cond2)doB();else doC();