#include <stdio.h> 

int main(void){
	int myint;
	scanf("%d", &myint);
	if (myint > 5){ // conditional
		printf("More than five!");
	} else {
		printf("Less than five!");
	}
}
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Note that else statements directly following the closing parentheses of the if statement, and contain parentheses of their own. This too happens with else if (which cannot be last).

As (myint > 5) does not take into account whether myint is equal to 5, an else if statement can be used to distinguish between less than, more than and equal to five.

#include <stdio.h> 

int main(void){
	int myint;
	scanf("%d", &myint);
	if (myint > 5){
		printf("More than five!");
	} else if (myint < 5) {
		printf("Less than five!");
	} else {
        printf("Five!");
    }
}
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Code in this else if will only run if the previous statements evaluate to False (again, 0 in C). Code in the else will only run if all other conditions evaluate to False.

While statements run for the duration that something is True.