parsing concatenated statements

[gremlin4]

Now aged 80, have taken up my interest in programming in Basic again, after a lapse of about 10 years, so I'm a bit rusty.
I have been trying to figure out the method by which a SuDoKuSolver I found on the internet works. Now, I am used to 'IF constructs with multiple statements following the THEN being terminated by an ENDIF.
It's not so with this snippet:-
IF i$ = " " then gr$(x, y) = " ": GOSUB ff: .........
My question is, is the GOSUB only to be carried out if the IF is true, or anyway.?

Edit:..the 'then' should of course have been 'THEN' and there was no 'ENDIF' to be found.

[burger2227]

When the space bar is pressed, X$ = "A" and the GOSUB is executed

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DO: i$ = INKEY$: LOOP UNTIL LEN(i$)

IF i$ = " " THEN x$ = "A": GOSUB ff:
PRINT i$, x$

END 'must use END/SYSTEM or the GOSUB will run before ending the program with a RETURN without GOSUB error.

ff:
PRINT "Space bar pressed"
RETURN

A single line IF statement does not require END IF as it is not a statement block that needs a defined end.

Everything after THEN will be executed when the statement is TRUE

[gremlin4]

hello again burger 2227

I just spent an hour preparing a reply, had to go to the loo, when I came back, all my work had vanished
Some of the text giving me nightmares is this

cc:
'locate to 11, 19 , (WHY?) then get icon PRINTING THE ICON HERE IS NEEDED!
LOCATE (y * 2) + 1, (x * 4) - 1: COLOR 11: i$ = CHR$(2): PRINT i$ ‘print i$ is my addition

'at this stage, fl = 0 (yes, I checked this)
'and gr$(x, y) IS " ", (len(gr$(x, y)) checks as 1), but perhaps its just s spsce
‘ so 'IF' fails!. PUT ICON – but it doesn’t show up
IF fl = 0 AND gr$(x, y) <> " " THEN i$ = gr$(x, y): 'Print i$ = wrong

compare with the original, all being well it will be tagged on below.

as its now 4 am I quit for now
Ed

[gremlin4]

hello again, again,burger 2227

I must admit to having been stupid. The answer to my problem was staring at me.
I had split the statement(s)

IF fl = 0 AND gr$(x, y) = " " THEN i$ = gr$(x, y) :PRINT i$

into

IF fl = 0 AND gr$(x, y) = " " THEN i$ = gr$(x, y) :
PRINT i$

whereas I should have typed

IF fl = 0 AND gr$(x, y) = " " THEN i$ = gr$(x, y)
PRINT i$

Thats it!

Sorry, that's not QUITE right. If the PRINT i$ on the same line as the IF, i will be controlled by it.
Thats not what is needed. The Print i$ must be on a new line. The colon is neither here nor there
I'll shut up now. Thanks for your support
Bye, Ed