# Conditional Variables
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/conditional-variables/44666
**Category:** support
**Created:** [June 2, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/conditional-variables/44666 "2023-06-02T18:30:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Jason\_Kennedy](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Jason_Kennedy)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/conditional-variables/44666/1 "2023-06-02T18:30:19Z")
Is there a way to conditionalize variables similar to the following:
‘’’
{{ if eq .Page.Params.type “featured-artists” }}
{{ $artistName := .Page.Params.Title }}
{{ $artistURL := .Page.Params.artistURL }}
{{ else }}
{{ $artistName := .Page.Params.jurorGuestName }}
{{ $artistURL := .Page.Params.jurorGuestURL }}
{{ end }}
‘’’
This ability would greatly DRY out a lot of my code
Thnx
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### Author:  [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2023, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/conditional-variables/44666/2 "2023-06-02T18:34:58Z")
Yes. Initialize with `:=` before the conditional block, and assign with `=` within the conditional block.
```plaintext
{{ $a := 0 }}
{{ if true }}
{{ $a = 6 }}
{{ else }}
{{ $a = 7 }}
{{ end }}
{{ $a }} --> 6
```
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### Author:  [@Jason\_Kennedy](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Jason_Kennedy)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2023, 8:54pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/conditional-variables/44666/4 "2023-06-02T20:54:22Z")
Interesting, I thought for giggles to try out Bard, Googles Ai that now can answer coding questions and this is the answer given:
> …you can use the `cond` function to conditionally assign values to variables. The `cond` function takes three arguments: a condition, a value to return if the condition is true, and a value to return if the condition is false.
>
> In your case, the condition would be whether the `type` parameter is equal to `"featured-artists"`. If it is, then the value of the `artistName` and `artistURL` variables would be set to the values of the `Title` and `artistURL` parameters, respectively. Otherwise, the values of the `artistName` and `artistURL` variables would be set to the values of the `jurorGuestName` and `jurorGuestURL` parameters, respectively.
>
> Here is the code:
```auto
{{ $artistName := cond (eq .Page.Params.type "featured-artists") .Page.Params.Title .Page.Params.jurorGuestName }}
{{ $artistURL := cond (eq .Page.Params.type "featured-artists") .Page.Params.artistURL .Page.Params.jurorGuestURL }}
```
> This code would assign the following values to the `artistName` and `artistURL` variables:
>
> - `artistName` = `Title` if the `type` parameter is equal to `"featured-artists"`
> - `artistName` = `jurorGuestName` if the `type` parameter is not equal to `"featured-artists"`
> - `artistURL` = `artistURL` if the `type` parameter is equal to `"featured-artists"`
> - `artistURL` = `jurorGuestURL` if the `type` parameter is not equal to `"featured-artists"`
>
> You can then use the `artistName` and `artistURL` variables in your template as you would any other variable.
Not bad! Maybe send RP coding question to Bard first? LOL
@jmooring
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### Author:  [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/conditional-variables/44666/5 "2023-06-02T21:00:50Z")
The problem you can run into with the `cond` function is that it can only evaluate boolean values (`true` or `false`). It cannot evaluate other truthy or falsy values.
```plaintext
{{ warnf "%s" (cond 42 "6" "7") }}
Error ... executing "main" at <42>: expected bool; found 42
```