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ternary operator

A ternary operator is some operation operating on 3 inputs. It's a shortcut for an if-else statement, and is also known as a conditional operator.

  • In Perl/PHP it works as: "boolean_condition?true_value:false_value"
  • In C/C++ it works as: logical expression? action for true : action for false



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