Nested if Statements

In this lesson, we will look at nesting if statements that allow for our program to choose from among several possible actions.

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What is a nested if statement?

Previously, we saw the syntax of an if statement as follows:

if ( condition )
    statement1
else  
    statement2

Both statement1 and statement2 represent other Java statements, including if statements and compound statements. Recall that a compound statement consists of one or more Java statements enclosed in a pair of braces. The statements within these braces can also be other if statements.

When an if statement occurs within another if statement, we say that they are nested. Any of these statements can have an else clause.

Example

Suppose that we have two objects that represent two people. Each object has the method getAge that returns the age of a person as an integer. You wonder which person is older. The following program will tell you:

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