Pro Ep 22 : Ternary Conditional ?: Operator in C#

Muhammad Waseem
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1 min readMar 7, 2023

♉ Using ternary conditional operator we can make our code shorter and more readable.

♉ It saves us from multiple lines of if-else.

♉ It works like : — 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 ? 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚗𝚝 : 𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎

♉ Its recommended to use when action after the condition is shorter.

♉ We can use it for multiple levels as well
𝚟𝚊𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 = 𝚏𝚘𝚘 ? 𝟷 :
𝚋𝚊𝚛 ? 𝟸 :
𝚋𝚊𝚣 ? 𝟹 :
𝟺;
♉ It works efficiently with expression bodied methods e.g.

𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚎𝚝𝙳𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚔(𝙳𝚊𝚢𝙾𝚏𝚆𝚎𝚎𝚔 𝚍𝚊𝚢) =>
𝚍𝚊𝚢 == 𝙳𝚊𝚢𝙾𝚏𝚆𝚎𝚎𝚔.𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚢 ? “𝙻𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚍𝚎” : “𝙲𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚎”;

𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐎𝐟𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 is enum available in .NET

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