Short Hand If…Else

Short Hand If…Else

The ternary operator, also known as the short-hand if-else, comprises three operands and is employed to condense multiple lines of code into a single line.

It is commonly utilized to substitute straightforward if-else statements.

Syntax

variable= (condition) ?expressionTrue: expressionFalse;

Rather than composing:

Example

You can easily express:


Example

int time = 20;
String result = (time < 18) ? "Good day." : "Good evening.";
System.out.println(result);