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Andres Osorio
43,021 PointsIs this challenge bugged or am I not seeing things?
I have being trying to pass the challenge but it keeps telling me to add the boolean expresion in the ternary operator. Can someone help me please?
int value = -1;
string textColor = null;
(value < 0) ? textColor = "red" : textColor = "green";
1 Answer
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Joe Beltramo
Courses Plus Student 22,191 PointsIn order to assign a value while using a ternary operator you must place the ternary conditional on the right hand side of the variable assignment. So simply remove the textColor
equals from within your ternary conditional.
Example:
variableName = expression ? truthValue : falseValue
textColor = value < 0 ? "red" : "green"
Andres Osorio
43,021 PointsAndres Osorio
43,021 PointsThanks alot! That makes sense!