If...then...Else

The If statement in visual basic script is most useful and basically essential if you want to do any sort of ASP programming. So in this tutorial we will simply outline the basic syntax and give a few examples of how it works.

The basic statement is as follows (assuming that foobar is an ASP variable you have defined):

Easy to follow? There is a one line simpler version even if you leave out the Else part:

You can expand it to deal with other possibilities too:

Again, the above should be fairly easy to follow, it works its way through the alternatives in the ELSEIF parts. If none of them are the case, then the ELSE alternative is outputted.

You can make your statements more complex too:

I hope this has helped you understand the basic syntax of If-then-Else statements and I am sure you can think of various applications for them that you could use in your web programming.