#conditional operator

Java : Decision Making Statements

All the program statements in java executed sequentially in the order in which they appear. This order of execution can change when there is used jumping statements or the repetition of certain statements or any decision making statements.

These are some decision making statements:

if Statement

if-else statement

else-if statement

switch statement

Below is the syntax for each decision making…

The Ternary Operator also known as Conditional Operator. If this logical expression result is true then only block or statements of expression1 will execute otherwise control will reach to expression2.

Ternary operator is equivalent to if-else statementIf this logical expression execution result is true then only the block associated with if statement will execute otherwise control will reach to…

Conditional operator is somehow substitute to the if-else structure. It is also used to make two-way decision as we made in if-else. We need three operands to complete conditional operator statement that’s why it called ternary operator. It is denoted by question mark (?) and colon (:). General syntax for conditional operator is: (condition)? statement1: statement2; (more…)

A ternary conditional is a type of fundamental programming operator (operators are special symbols that perform specific operations on one, two, or three operands, and then return a result) that follows this general form:

condition ? value_if_true : value_if_false

The condition is a boolean condition, meaning it will return either ‘true’ or ‘false’. Depending on this boolean’s result, one of the two values on the right side of the ? will be “chosen”. If the boolean’s result was ‘true’, the value on the left side of the : will be “chosen”, otherwise if the result was ‘false’, the value on the right side of the : will be “chosen”. The “chosen” value is then returned.

Using a ternary conditional operator is a common way of re-writing a simple if/else statement. For example:

if (a > b) {    result = x; } else {    result = y; }

can be re-written in a cleaner, more elegant, one-lined way:

Conditional Operator: How much flexibility?

I would like to perform the following:

if(x == true) { // do this on behalf of x // do this on behalf of x // do this on behalf of x }

Using a conditional operator, is this correct?

x == true ? { /*do a*/, /*do b*/, /*do c*/ } : y == true ? ... ;

Is this malformed?

I am not nesting more than one level with a conditional operator.

The expressions I intend to use are highly terse…