06-Ternary-Operator.md

Ternary Operator

Ternary operator is a shorthand version of if-else statement. It has three operands and hence the name ternary. General format is:

condition ? if-true : if-false

The above statement means that if the condition evaluates to true, then execute the statements after the ? else execute the statements after the :.

Example 01

// Java program to illustrate    
// max of three numbers using    
// ternary operator.    
public class Operators {

	public static void main(String[] args){ 
		int a = 20, b = 10, c = 30, result; 

		// result holds max of three 
		// numbers 
		result = ((a > b) 
					? (a > c) 
							? a 
							: c 
					: (b > c) 
							? b 
							: c); 
		System.out.println("Max of three numbers = "
						+ result); 
	} 
} 

Output:

Max of three numbers = 30

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