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Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Else.html#Else">Else</a>,
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Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Conditional-Syntax.html#Conditional-Syntax">Conditional Syntax</a>
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<h4 class="subsection">4.2.5 Elif</h4>
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<p><a name="index-g_t_0023elif-91"></a>One common case of nested conditionals is used to check for more than two
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possible alternatives. For example, you might have
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<pre class="smallexample"> #if X == 1
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#else /* X != 1 */
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#if X == 2
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#else /* X != 2 */
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#endif /* X != 1 */
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<p>Another conditional directive, ‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’, allows this to be
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abbreviated as follows:
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#elif X == 2
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#else /* X != 2 and X != 1*/
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#endif /* X != 2 and X != 1*/
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<p>‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ stands for “else if”. Like ‘<samp><span class="samp">#else</span></samp>’, it goes in the
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middle of a conditional group and subdivides it; it does not require a
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matching ‘<samp><span class="samp">#endif</span></samp>’ of its own. Like ‘<samp><span class="samp">#if</span></samp>’, the ‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’
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directive includes an expression to be tested. The text following the
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‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ is processed only if the original ‘<samp><span class="samp">#if</span></samp>’-condition
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failed and the ‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ condition succeeds.
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<p>More than one ‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ can go in the same conditional group. Then
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the text after each ‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ is processed only if the ‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’
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condition succeeds after the original ‘<samp><span class="samp">#if</span></samp>’ and all previous
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‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ directives within it have failed.
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<p>‘<samp><span class="samp">#else</span></samp>’ is allowed after any number of ‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ directives, but
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‘<samp><span class="samp">#elif</span></samp>’ may not follow ‘<samp><span class="samp">#else</span></samp>’.
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