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4.7) Understanding Decisions In Fortran


Explains how to do a first basic if statement.

The decision in Example 8 is made by the If statement on lines 6 to 10. If the test in the round brackets is true then it goes to line 7 (inside the if statement) and prints that a is greater than b and once it has done that it will jump to line 10 and end the if statement.

It is vitally important that you understand that once the program enters one part of the if statement then it will always jump past the other tests and go to the endif