Ternary

The ternary operator is a concise way to write conditional statements in many programming languages. It's a one-liner conditional expression that evaluates a condition and returns a value based on whether the condition is true or false.

The basic structure of the ternary operator is:

• condition ? value_if_true : value_if_false

condition: The expression evaluated for its truth value.

• value_if_true: The value returned if the condition is true.
• value_if_false: The value returned if the condition is false.

The ternary operator can be used as an expression to assign values or return results based on a condition.

Example

C

int a = 5, b = 8;
int max_value = (a > b) ? a : b;
printf("The maximum value is %d\n", max_value);

C++

int a = 5, b = 8;
int max_value = (a > b) ? a : b;
cout << "The maximum value is " << max_value << endl;

Java

int a = 5, b = 8;
int max_value = (a > b) ? a : b;
System.out.println("The maximum value is " + max_value);

Python

a = 5
b = 8
max_value = a if a > b else b
print("The maximum value is", max_value)