<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thomas,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Ekin pointed you to the place in the documentation that talks about the lack of an "else if" type of command. It's mentioned in the third paragraph.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You can mimic it somewhat, by putting the "else" and the "if" on the same line, but the caveat is that you need and "end if" for every "else if" that you introduce:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13.3333330154419px;line-height:16px;font-family:courier;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> if (<i style="margin:0px;padding:0px">scalar_logical_expression</i>) then
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else if (<i style="margin:0px;padding:0px">scalar_logical_expression</i>) then
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else if (<i style="margin:0px;padding:0px">scalar_logical_expression</i>) then
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else
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end if
end if
end if</pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13.3333330154419px;line-height:16px;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We do not have immediate plans to add a formal "elif" type statement, but we do have a ticket for it. The developers have told me this is not a trivial request.</font></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13.3333330154419px;line-height:16px;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--Mary</font></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13.3333330154419px;line-height:16px;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;font-size:13.3333330154419px;line-height:16px;font-family:courier;border-style:solid;border-width:0px 0px 15px;border-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Thomas Tobian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomastobian@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomastobian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I meant elif instead of else if... anyhow, they are doing the same thing.<br><br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Ekin Akoglu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ekin@ims.metu.edu.tr" target="_blank">ekin@ims.metu.edu.tr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Please see <a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/Ref_Manual/NclStatements.shtml" target="_blank">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Manuals/Ref_Manual/NclStatements.shtml</a><br><br></div>Best,<br><br></div>Ekin<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 23 February 2015 at 15:26, Thomas Tobian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomastobian@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomastobian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi NCL,<br><br></div>is "elif" statement valid in NCL?<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div></div><span><font color="#888888">Thomas Tobian<br></font></span></div>
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