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C# Ternary Expression

C# Ternary Expression

This lesson discusses ternary operators in detail including compound ternary expressions using examples

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Ternay Operator

This is a short way of representing conditional statement in C#.

Ternary operator has one boolean expression, and returns one of two values depending on the value of a Boolean expression.

Syntax

Here’s the syntax

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condition ? expression_if_true : expression_if_false;

Example

Let’s take a look at an example which uses ternary operators.

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using System;
class TernaryExample
{
    static void Main()
    {
        string name = "Frank"; //change this name to see the false condition execute
        Console.WriteLine(name == "Frank" ? "The name is Frank" : "The name is not Frank");
    }
}

Code Explanation

In the code above

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