Statements

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JScript Statements

This section of the JScript reference includes JScript:
Conditional Statements
Expressions and Operators

Conditional Statements

The main conditional statements supported by JScript are;

• if (expression) else
• else if
• switch
• while loop
• do while loop
• for loop
• for in

Care needs to be taken to code scripts that avoid infinite loops — that is, ensuring that the conditions will eventually be met.

The if.. else statement

The syntax is:

 if Condition { } else if ANotherCondition { } else{ }

The switch statement

The switch statement is like a multi-way branch. The basic syntax is:

 switch (n) { case 1: n == 1   //execute code.   break case 2: n==2   //execute code. break; default: // if all else fails...   //execute code. break; }

The while statement

The while statement is a basic statement that allows repetitive actions until a condition is met. It is possible that the statements inside the while body never get executed if the condition is not met once.

 while (expression) {   //statement... }

The do...while statement

The do...while statement is a variation on the while statement, where the loop expression is tested at the bottom of the loop rather than at the top. This means the body of the loop is always executed at least once. The general syntax is:

 do   // statements while (expression);

The for statement

The for statement provides a common loop statement with a counter variable of some kind. The syntax is:

 for (initialize ; test ; increment)   //statement

Example

 for (count = 0; count < 10; count ++)   showmessage(inttostr(count));

The for...in statement

The for...in statement provides a way to loop through the properties of an object, or all the elements of an array. The for...in loop does not specify the order in which the properties of an object are assigned to the variable.

 for (variable in object)   //statement.

Expressions and Operators

An expression is a valid combination of constants, variables, literal values, operators and function results. Expressions are used to determine the value to assign to a variable, to compute the parameter of a function or to test for a condition. Expressions can include function calls.

JScript has a number of logical, arithmetic, Boolean and relational operators. These operators are grouped by the order of precedence, which is different to the precedence orders used by Basic, C etc. For example, the AND and OR operators have precedence compared to the relational one.

Arithmetic Operators

Logical Operators

Bitwise Operators

Operator Precedence