If statement documentation (operators, functions, usage info)

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Is there any more complete documentation on how to use “if” statements in Make? Things I want to know include:

  • Can we use “!=” for doesn’t equal? What other operators are available? = < > >= <=, etc.

  • Can we use parenthesis? Can we combine multiple things with AND or OR? What about NOT?

  • Can we use functions within an if statement? For example: if (count(something) > 1; this; that)

  • When do we use quotes? Can we use quotes? Should we use quotes? For example: if (myfield = “Yes”; this that)

Is there anywhere that fully documents using if statements in Make?

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The official documentation on the if function can be found here https://www.make.com/en/help/functions/general-functions#if--expression--value1--value2-

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Ok, I was eventually able to find some answers. It’s too bad the documentation isn’t more thorough. The thing that I haven’t really seen explained anywhere is that you can’t just type operators like AND, =, etc. You have to either click on the operators in the little side menu, or you have to enter them with two curly braces around them like {{=}}. Once I figured out that, a lot of the rest of it made more sense. So here are the answers to my questions to hopefully clear this up for other people also.

  • Can we use “!=” for doesn’t equal? What other operators are available? = < > >= <=, etc.

Yes, but they have to be entered as {{=}}, {{>}}, etc.

  • Can we use parenthesis? Can we combine multiple things with AND or OR? What about NOT?

Yes. As {{AND}}, etc.

  • Can we use functions within an if statement? For example: if (count(something) > 1; this; that)

Yes, that seems to work.

  • When do we use quotes? Can we use quotes? Should we use quotes? For example: if (myfield = “Yes”; this that)

No. Rather than using quotes around literals and strings, you instead use {{ }} around the language operators and keywords. It’s sort of the opposite of what you would usually do in most programming languages.

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Hey there @sweatytofu :wave:

Great to hear that you solved this issue! Also thank you very much for sharing the solution and info with us!

Keep up the great job!

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