Question

I tried to test this myself before asking on the forum but my simple code to test this didn’t seem to work.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
cout << "Enter int: ";
int number;
cin >> number;
if (number==1||2||3) {
    cout << "Your number was 1, 2, or 3." << endl;
}
else if (number==4||5||6) {
    cout << "Your number was 4, 5, or 6." << endl;
}
else {
    cout << "Your number was above 6." << endl;
}
return 0;
}

It always returns the first condition. My question is, is it even possible to have more than 2 OR conditions? Or is my syntax incorrect?

Answer 1

You need to code your tests differently:

if (number==1 || number==2 || number==3) {
    cout << "Your number was 1, 2, or 3." << endl;
}
else if (number==4 || number==5 || number==6) {
    cout << "Your number was 4, 5, or 6." << endl;
}
else {
    cout << "Your number was above 6." << endl;
}

The way you were doing it, the first condition was being interpreted as if it were written like this

if ( (number == 1) || 2 || 3 ) {

The logical or operator (||) is defined to evaluate to a true value if the left side is true or if the left side is false and the right side is true. Since 2 is a true value (as is 3), the expression evaluates to true regardless of the value of number.