<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Else - The C Preprocessor</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="The C Preprocessor"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Conditional-Syntax.html#Conditional-Syntax" title="Conditional Syntax"> <link rel="prev" href="Defined.html#Defined" title="Defined"> <link rel="next" href="Elif.html#Elif" title="Elif"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1987-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. This manual contains no Invariant Sections. The Front-Cover Texts are (a) (see below), and the Back-Cover Texts are (b) (see below). (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Else"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Elif.html#Elif">Elif</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Defined.html#Defined">Defined</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Conditional-Syntax.html#Conditional-Syntax">Conditional Syntax</a> <hr> </div> <h4 class="subsection">4.2.4 Else</h4> <p><a name="index-g_t_0023else-90"></a>The ‘<samp><span class="samp">#else</span></samp>’ directive can be added to a conditional to provide alternative text to be used if the condition fails. This is what it looks like: <pre class="smallexample"> #if <var>expression</var> <var>text-if-true</var> #else /* Not <var>expression</var> */ <var>text-if-false</var> #endif /* Not <var>expression</var> */ </pre> <p class="noindent">If <var>expression</var> is nonzero, the <var>text-if-true</var> is included and the <var>text-if-false</var> is skipped. If <var>expression</var> is zero, the opposite happens. <p>You can use ‘<samp><span class="samp">#else</span></samp>’ with ‘<samp><span class="samp">#ifdef</span></samp>’ and ‘<samp><span class="samp">#ifndef</span></samp>’, too. </body></html>