writing If blocks

[rachana ravali]

Hi ,
Is there any difference in terms of performance or other , if we write too many conditions in one if block.i.e like ...
if (condition1 && condition2 && condition3 &&.....sofar)
or is there any good if we split the conditions like this...
if(condition1)
{
if(condition2)
{ ......

Please let me know.

[Giovanni De Stefano]

Hello Rachana,

In both cases you reach the innest "if" block if and only if every previous "if" condition is true.

Don't be fooled by a long "if" condition with a bunch of &&: as soon as the first && is false, the execution skips outside the "if" (the remaining && in the single long condition are not evaluated).

Cheers,
Giovanni

[Rob Spoor]

Correct. && and || are shortcut operators - once the total result will already be known (e.g. if any operand is false for && or true for ||) it will ignore everything that follows. If you need to evaluate those always you should use & and |.

[rachana ravali]

Thanks Giovanni and Rob.