Boolean expression?

Question

Keeps saying that I need to include a boolean operator. But I thought the "?" was a bool op. what am I missing?

CodeChallenge.cs

int value = -1;
string textColor = null;

return (value < 0) ? textColor = "red" : textColor = "green";

Answer 1 · 2017-02-03T16:42:43Z

February 3, 2017 4:42pm

Hi John,

You don't need the return statement because you're not trying to return a value from a method.

I believe what you have left should be passing the challenge but it's not.

(value < 0) ? textColor = "red" : textColor = "green";

The challenge might be trying to get you to follow a better practice. Notice that you're repeating the textColor variable here.

You could have the textColor on the left and then only "red" and "green" in the ternary statement.

textColor = (value < 0) ? "red" : "green";

The ternary statement will either evaluate to "red" or "green" and that result will then be assigned to textColor

This way you're avoiding repetition.

Answer 2 · 2017-02-03T16:46:44Z

February 3, 2017 4:46pm

int value = -1; string textColor = null;

return (value < 0) ? textColor = "red" : textColor = "green";

your code should look like this:

int value = -1; textColor = (value < 0) ? "red" : "green";

hope it helps.

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