Missing condition in if statement error in go lang

Question

I have this if statement that is not evaluating correctly:

// Take advantage of Boolean short-circuit evaluation
if h != 2 && h != 3 && h != 5 && h != 6 && h != 7 && h != 8
{
    fmt.Println("Hello")
}
return 0

This is the error message -

missing condition in if statement

I have already tried putting the conditions in brackets etc.

I'm also learning Go currently. I have found that using Gofmt really cuts down, or eliminates entirely, this type of error. Good luck...https://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/ — user1503949, Nov 28 '14 at 14:23
yeah, I should start doing that, right now I run the programs directly in sublime.. — Varun, Nov 28 '14 at 14:28
I've been using LiteIDE, which can also run your Go code directly, but it will apply Gofmt before compiling, which is nice. Anyhow, good luck with it. — user1503949, Nov 28 '14 at 14:47
@Varun Install https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime is a sublime extension for go that (among other wonderful things) calls gofmt automatically before saving your file so each time you save it gets formatted automatically. — Topo, Nov 28 '14 at 16:14

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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You would need to put the { at the end of the if:

if h != 2 && h != 3 && h != 5 && h != 6 && h != 7 && h != 8 {
    fmt.Println("Hello")
}
return 0

See this example.
See also "Why does Golang enforce curly bracket to not be on the next line?".

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered Nov 28 '14 at 14:13

VonC

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '17 at 07:24

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You must have to put Curly Braches right after the if condition like this:

Right example

if(condition){
<code comes here>
}

Wrong example

if(condition)
{
<code comes here>
}

answered Jan 31 '17 at 07:24

Om Sao

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Missing condition in if statement error in go lang

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