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drstrangequark
8,273 PointsNot sure what I'm doing wrong here
I've changed the if/else statement to a ternary if statement. The format looks just like it does in the lesson but it's still giving me an error and asking if I included the boolean expression to evaluate. I thought that the boolean expression was whether "value" is less than 0.
Can anyone point me to what I'm doing wrong here?
int value = -1;
string textColor = null;
public bool ColorChoice(int value)
{
return (value < 0) ? textColor = "red" : textColor = "green";
}
3 Answers
Steven Parker
229,644 PointsThis challenge doesn't involve creating a function. But if it did, you'd still need to call the function to make something happen.
And 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;
Raffael Dettling
32,998 PointsYou dont need the function^^ Use te tenary if statment to assign a value to the textColor variable :) And in an tenary statment you dont have variable names just the values it can assign
textColor = (value < 0) ? "red" : "green";
drstrangequark
8,273 PointsThat did it. Thanks guys!