How to cancel assignment output in an if clause?

New to Julia
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I know the semicolon at a=1; will cancel the output display at the REPL, but I get the output display 1 when I use the assignment in an if-clause:

if variable == check
a=1;
end

Sorry if this a very simple question, I am just starting out in Julia. Thanks in advance.

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Put the ; after the end. Also applies to if, let, begin, etc
That is indeed a weird edge case I run into sometimes as well!

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Big thanks for the help and the speed!!

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It’s not weird because if stetements are also expressions, hence return a value. For instance, you can write

a = if variable == check; 1 else 2 end

You can also omit the semicolon after the condition, but I think it aids readability.

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