In this post, we’ll learn If else conditional statement in Kotlin. We’ll cover each small topic, that has related to IF-ELSE. will see If expression and if multiple conditions with the help of an example. So lets started
If else conditional Statement
Let’s see the below here we simply define two values. Now down the side, I want to get max value using if condition in Kotlin
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
val a = 10
val b = 15
var result: Int
if (a > b) {
result = a
} else {
result = b
}
print("Greater value is $result")
}
Above expression, we simply wrote a code for get a max value. So let us run the code and see, here we find simply 15, So we had simply written code to find the maximum value of these two number .
Output is
Greater value is 15 Process finished with exit code 0
IF as Expression
The conditional statement is very similar to java. But in Kotlin we have If expression. What mean of that? We can use if condition as expression. How to do that let’s see
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
val a = 10
val b = 15
val result = if (a > b) {
a
} else {
b
}
print("Greater value is $result")
}
As you see our code is more cleaner, So here what I’m doing is, this is the if as an expression. Now simply if a is greater than b then assign a to the result variable else assign b.
Means which is a maximum value that will be assigned to the result variable. In the end, simply print the result variables. Let us run the code the output will we same. So in Kotlin we can make if condition to the return some value, that called IF as Expression
Multiple if statements
Suppose I have multiple lines of code inside the if condition so which value will be return? and which will store in the result variable.
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
val a = 10
val b = 15
val result = if (a > b) {
print("A is greater")
a
} else {
print("B is greater")
b
}
print("Greater value is $result")
}
Let see above code here I’m adding a block of code inside the if condition. In this condition where we have multiple lines of code with in the IF block also else block. So which of the following will be return
Now as per the rule, The last statement that is define inside the if condition will be returned.In this example last statement is a and b
Conclusion
So in this way we are actually using the if-else condition as an expression now this if the condition is returning some value. So that us why we calling IF expression
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