Talk:If

Do brackets help in logical operations?

IE: elseif Random > 75 && ( LilRandom == 4 || LilRandom2 == 4 )

That should be if Random is over 75, and LilRandom or LilRandom2 equals 4, but what I gather is that Oblivion will interpret it as:

if Random is over 75 and LilRandom is equal to 4, OR LilRandom equals 4.

Logically it should interpret it the prior, but with Oblivion, I'm not so sure. --MaXiMiUS 21:42, 9 April 2006 (EDT)

--JOG 15:21, 14 April 2006 (EDT)Doesn't help as far as I've tested it.

--JOG 04:51, 17 April 2006 (EDT) Didn't really read and thought you asked about AND/OR as bitwise operators. Of course brackets work but since OR always has priority over AND you need to include the AND part.

tabs and spaces

I just spent an hour searching for a bug in a script using &&:

Apparently certain combination of tabs and spaces between the two parameters cause the IF-Block to break processing of the script. No commands within the IF-Block or after the IF-Block are executed.

Here is an example:

http://home.tiscali.de/jo.ge1/tabs_working.txt

This one works fine: for each of the three objects you get a Journal entry when you activate it and can activate it as often as you like.

http://home.tiscali.de/jo.ge1/tabs_not_working.txt

The second one doesn't work: You just get the journal entry when you activate the first object, no activation, And the second and third object can't be activated at all.

--JOG 15:27, 14 April 2006 (EDT)

Gotchas

The following if condition compiled (I forgot to type the last angleA):

if (angleA >= 0 && angleA <= 90) || (angleA >= 180 && < 270)

Once my script hit this line, it stopped working completely. No indication that anything was wrong. --Mrflippy 21:06, 15 April 2006 (EDT)

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Also,

Sometimes a runtime error will occur where:

      if cond1 && cond2
         ;code
      endif

is not evaluated correctly in scripts. If you find a similar conditional statement is not functioning correctly, try:

      if cond1
         if cond2
            ;code
         endif
      endif

The reason for this anomaly is currently unknown.