# Case/When/Then

The CASE/WHEN/THEN construct

If you need an expression to return different values depending on the input, you can use the CASE-WHEN-THEN construct.

The example below returns the text `"zero"` if the value of variable *x* is 0, the text `"negative"` if *x* is less than 0 and the text `"positive"` in all other cases.

```
case when x = 0 then "zero" when x < 0 then "negative" else "positive" end
```


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