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Definition of Control Statements

By David Bolton, About.com

Definition: Control Statements are elements in Source Code that control the flow of program execution. There are blocks using { and }, loops using for, while and do - While and decision making using if and switch. There's also goto.

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My Application had 5 if statements.
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