V8017. The conditions of two adjacent 'if' statements are equivalent.

The analyzer has detected code that contains two adjacent if statements with identical conditions. This is either a potential error or redundant code.

func Logging(s1 *string, s2 *string) {
  if s1 != nil {
    fmt.Println(*s1)
  }
  if s1 != nil {
    fmt.Println(*s2)
  }
}

The code contains an error in the second condition. The s1 variable is checked twice when s2 should be checked instead.

The fixed code:

func Logging(s1 *string, s2 *string) {
  if s1 != nil {
    fmt.Println(*s1)
  }
  if s2 != nil {
    fmt.Println(*s2)
  }
}

This warning does not always mean there is an error in the code. It may be redundant:

func Logging2(toFile bool, s1 string, s2 string) {
  if toFile {
    fmt.Println(s1)
  }
  if toFile {
    fmt.Println(s2)
  }
}

The code is correct but slightly inefficient because it checks the value of the same boolean variable twice. It can be rewritten as follows:

func Logging2(toFile bool, s1 string, s2 string) {
  if toFile {
    fmt.Println(s1)
    fmt.Println(s2)
  }
}

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