CSC – 183

Programming C
Chapter - 6

Decision Making and Branching

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Today’s Outline:
• Introduction
• Decision Making statements in C
• Simple if statement
• if_else statement
• else_if ladder
• nested if_else statement
• switch statement
• goto statement

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Decision Making and Branching

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Introduction :
• C statements are normally executed sequentially in order
they appear.
• In practice, depending on situation may have to change the
order of execution of statements based on certain conditions,
or repeated a group of statements until met certain
conditions.

• In this kinds of situation need to take decision, and according

to the decision the flow or execution order of statements are
changed.

• That’s why it is called Decision Making and Branching.

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Decision Making statements in C :

1) if statement

2) switch statement

3) Conditional operator statement (?:)

4) goto statement

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Simple if Statement :
• Format:

if ( test condition )
statements;

• Example:

scanf( “ %f “ , &marks );
if( marks >= 80 )
printf( "Yes, the student get A+“ );

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Simple if Statement :
• Format:

if ( test condition )
statements;

• Example:

if( category == SPORTS )

{
marks = marks + bonus_marks;
}
printf( " Marks = %f " , marks );
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Simple if Statement : (flowchart)

Entry

Test True
Expression
?

Statement-block
False

Statement - x

Next Statement

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Simple if Statement : (Program)
• If category is SPORTS, then add bonus_mark with marks.

• Count number of boys weight is less than 50 kg and height is

greater than 170 cm.

• Check divide by 0 ‘Zero’ condition in division operation.

• Write C program to print the square of a number if it is less
than 10.
• Check a number is greater, smaller or equal to another
number.

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if_else Statement :
• Format:
if ( test condition )
statements;
else
statements;

• Example:
if( num % 2 == 0 )
printf( “Even number’’ );
else
printf( “Odd number” );

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if_else Statement : (flowchart)

Entry

True Test False

Expression
?
True-block False-block
statement statement

Statement - x

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If-else Statement : (Program)
• Find out larger number between two numbers.
• Check a number even or odd.
• Check a number is Numbers are divisible by any other
numbers.
• Check two values are equal or not.
• Check a marks is valid or invalid.
• Check a candidate is eligible or not. (age and gpa)

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nested if_else Statement
• When a series of decisions are involved, we may have to use
more than one if…else statement in nested form.

• Nested means one if statement inside of another if_else

statement.

• So, when one if statement appears inside of another if

statement for decision making is called nested if…else

• In nested if…else, nested if (inside one)may appear inside if

or else statement.

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nested if_else Statement
Format: Example:

if(a>b)
if ( condition ) {
if ( condition ) if(a>c)
printf("a is the largest:%d",a);
statement1; else
else printf("c is the largest:%d",c) ;
statement2; }
else
else {
statement3 ; if(c>b)
printf("c is the largest:%d",c);
else
printf("b is the largest:%d",b) ;
}
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nested if_else Statement (Example)
int main()
{
float salary, bonus;
if(gender == FEMALE)
{
if(salary > 10000)
bonus = salary * 0.5;
else
bonus = salary *0.2;
}
else
{
bonus = salary * 0.3;
}
salary = salary + bonus;
return 0;
}

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nested if_else Statement

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else_if ladder Statement
• This is another way of putting if’s together what multiple
decision are involved.
• A multipath decision is a chain of if’s in which the statement
associated with each else is an if.
• If any of the conditional expression evaluates to true, then it
will execute the corresponding code block and exits whole if-
else ladder.
• The conditions are evaluated from the top to downwards.
• If all conditions are false, then the final else containing
statement(s) will be executed as a default.

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else_if ladder Statement
Format: Example:
if(condition 1)
statements; if( marks > 79 )
printf( " Honours " );
else if(condition 2)
else if( marks > 59 )
statements; printf( " First Division " );
else if(condition 3) else if( marks > 49 )
statements; printf( " Second Division " );
................ else if( marks > 39 )
else if(condition n) printf( " Third Division " );
else
statements;
printf(" Fail ");
else
default statement;
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else_if ladder Statement

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Program using if-else ladder
• Write a program to determine the period of life from age.
– If age above 70: Your are too old.
– Age 51-70 : You are old.
– Age 36-50: You are a mid age person.
– Age 19-35: Your are young person.
– Age 12-18: You are a teenage.
– Age 0-11: You are a child.

• Write a program to check a character is vowel or not.

• Exercise program: 5.5 (E. Balagurusamy)

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switch Statement
• When in a program need to select so many alternatives option,
we can use an if statement to control the selection.

• But if number of alternatives increases, then complexity of a

program also increases and it difficult to understand the
program.

• C has a built-in multiway decision statement known as a switch.

• The switch statement tests the value of a given variable

(expression) against a list of case values and when a match is
found, a block of statements associated with that case is
executed.
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switch Statement Example:

Format: index=marks/10;
switch (index)
{
switch ( expression ) case 10:
case 9:
{
case 8:
case value-1: printf(" Honours ");
statements; break;
case 7:
break; case 6:
case value-2: printf(“ First Division ");
statements; break;
case 5:
break; printf(“ Second Division ");
............... break;
case 4:
...............
printf(“ Third Division ");
default: break;
statements; default:
printf( “ Fail ");
break; break;
} }
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switch Statement (cont.)
• The expression is an integer expression or characters.
• Each case value should be unique within a switch statement.
• case labels end with a colon (:).
• When switch is executed, the value of the expression is
compared against the value value-1, value-2 …. If a case
matched then the block of statements are executed.
• value in case should be constant, error if variable use.
• The break statement at the end of each block indicates end of
particular case and exit from switch statement.
• The switch also permitted to use nested switch statement.
• The default is an optional case.
– If present: executed if other cases value are not matched.
– If not present: no action if all cases are failed.
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switch Statement (flowchart)

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The ?: Operator (Conditional Operator)
• The C has an unusual operator, useful for making two-way
decisions. This operator is a combination of ? and :
• It has three parts and takes three operands.
• Format:
conditional_expression ? expression-1 : expression-2
max = (a>b?a:b)
• The conditional expression is evaluated first.
• If the result is nonzero, expression-1 is evaluated.
• Otherwise expression-2 is evaluated.
• Condition ? True output /1st expression : false output/2nd expr

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• Condition ? True output /1st expression : false output/2nd expr
• If(condition){true output/1st expression}else{false output/2nd
expression}
• If(a>b){print a}else {print b}
• a>b ? a : b

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goto Statement
• To jump one point to another point in a program goto statement is
used.
• The goto statement is an unconditional branching statement.
• Although maximum programmers usually try to avoid goto.
• The goto requires a label in order to identify the place where the
program execution is transferred.
• Label can be anywhere in the program, follow by a colon.
• The goto statement break the normal sequential execution of the
program.
• Forward Jump and Backward Jump
• Use of goto statement is highly discouraged in any programming
language because it makes difficult to trace the control flow of a
program, making the program hard to understand and hard to
modify.
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goto Statement
Format 1: Example:
goto add;
......... main()
......... {
add: double x,y;
a = b + c; read:
scanf("%lf",&x);
Format 2: if(x<0)
label: goto read;
statements; y=sqrt(x);
......... printf("%lf",y);
......... goto read;
goto label; } CSC-183
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goto Statement

Forward Jump Backward Jump

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Programming Exercise:
• Exercise: 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12
• Write a program to determine square of a number which is
divisible by 6 but not divisible by 4.

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 Thank You All

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