Else Without If

[iParadox]

i know this is a really easy thing to fix, but i cant figure it out

I keep getting the method Else Without If, how can i fix it

If showf.Text = "" Then MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The Show Command Empty")
ElseIf Hidef.Text = "" Then MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The Hide Command Empty")
ElseIf Endf.Text = "" Then MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The End Program Command Empty")
ElseIf Hidef.Text = "" Then MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The Open Command Empty")
Else: Big Mess of Code
End If

Thanks

ParadoX

[bpd]

If showf.Text = "" Then
  MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The Show Command Empty")
ElseIf Hidef.Text = "" Then
  MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The Hide Command Empty")
ElseIf Endf.Text = "" Then
  MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The End Program Command Empty")
ElseIf Hidef.Text = "" Then
  MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The Open Command Empty")
Else
  'Big Mess of Code
End If

When there's a statement on the same line as the Then, that means something different to VB.

[RobDog888]

Also, the colon character ':' when used that way is designating a carraige return, or such.

For i = 1 to 10 : MsgBox i : Next

But its bad coding to use that style.

[MartinLiss]

Better is:

Select Case True
    Case showf.Text = "" 
        MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The Show Command Empty")
    Case Hidef.Text = "" 
        MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The Hide Command Empty")
    Case Endf.Text = ""
       MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The End Program Command Empty")
    Case Hidef.Text = "" 'BTW do you realize this is the same as the one above
       MsgBox ("You Cannot Leave The Open Command Empty")
    Case Else
      'Big Mess of Code
End Select

Also a user of your program could type a couple of spaces in one of your textboxes and that would pass your edit so you might want to change all of them like this one

Case Trim(showf.Text) = ""

[RhinoBull]

There is one very interesting thing I noticed recently:

this sort of coding style (single line with colon) appears on our forum very frequently - I wonder if people that ask are all having the same instructor ???

Just curious ...

[dglienna]

teacher being slick, so he can find copycats, prolly. could be he doesn't know the difference, but in this day and age, I would hope that isn't the case. (it was almost 30 years ago when I was in school)

[randem]

iParadox


Try changing

Else: Big Mess of Code

to


Else
Big Mess of Code

or better yet

Else
Call Big Mess of Code


But for better coding I would suggest MartinLiss's Case Statement.