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Start your free trialJoshua Manley
727 PointsWhat does Iā mean include boolean expression?
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int value = -1;
string textColor = null;
return (value < 0) ? textColor = "red" : textColor = "green";
2 Answers
Renars Lellis
2,698 PointsOn the line which starts with return, you have what is called a ternary if statement. It is just a syntactically shorter way of writing a general if statement. The "?" acts as a "then", and the ":" acts as an "else".
Grzegorz Neubauer
997 Pointsbut why the code above bring this error Bummer: Did you include the boolean expression to evaluate?