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iyede isaiah
1,271 Pointstenary operator answe not working
i keep getting a bummer message asking whether i made a bool
int value = -1;
string textColor = null;
bool isColor = (value < 0) ? textColor = "red" : textColor = "green";
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsThe parentheses enclose "the boolean expression to evaluate" — you have that part correct but the checker is probably confused by the rest of the syntax.
Remember that the entire ternary is an expression, so it would not normally contain assignment statements, though it's common for it to be used in one.
A typical use of a ternary might have a structure like this:
somevariable = conditional_expression ? value_if_true : value_if_false;
And don't forget that textColor is the variable being assigned, you won't need to create a new one.