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- if expr1 ?then? body1 elseif expr2 ?then? body2 elseif ...
- ?else? ?bodyN?
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- DESCRIPTION
- The if command evaluates expr1 as an expression (in the same
- way that expr evaluates its argument). The value of the
- expression must be a boolean (a numeric value, where 0 is
- false and anything is true, or a string value such as true
- or yes for true and false or no for false); if it is true
- then body1 is executed by passing it to the Tcl interpreter.
- Otherwise expr2 is evaluated as an expression and if it is
- true then body2 is executed, and so on. If none of the
- expressions evaluates to true then bodyN is executed. The
- then and else arguments are optional ``noise words'' to make
- the command easier to read. There may be any number of
- elseif clauses, including zero. BodyN may also be omitted
- as long as else is omitted too. The return value from the
- command is the result of the body script that was executed,
- or an empty string if none of the expressions was non-zero
- and there was no bodyN.
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- KEYWORDS
- boolean, conditional, else, false, if, true
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