The if statement is a built-in construct capable of comparing a value and executing a set of commands based on the result of that condition. The if statement is used in conjunction with the /else statement and the /elseif statement to jump to certain blocks of code depending on the result of the conditional statement that was executed. The if statements supports the following operators.

Synopsis

if (<condition>) <statement>
if (<condition>) { <statements> }

Parameters

• <condition> - a conditional expression to be executed

Example

Below is a simple example of checking for at least five arguments before proceeding.

alias example {
  if ($0 < 5) { echo -atc info * /example: You must provide at least 5 arguments! | halt }
  ; do something useful here
  echo -a works!
}

Executing "/example a b c d" will result in:

* /example: You must provide at least 5 arguments!

While, executing "/example a b c d f" will result in:

works!

Compatibility

Added: mIRC v4.5

Added On: 06/30/96

Note: Individual switches were not taken into consideration.

See also

• List of commands
• List of identifiers
• $halted
• $result
• $alias
• $isalias
• $iif
• /alias
• /goto
• /halt
• /return
• /while
• /returnex
• /elseif
• /else