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C# C# Objects Encapsulation and Arrays Ternary If

Posted by Jose Badillo
Jose Badillo
1,186 Points

use bool expression to evaluate.

so I'm doing c# oop and I got to the ternery if expression and in the quiz its asking to use trynery to initialize value of the string textColor iv wrote the expression multiple different ways witch all did compile when I used the repl and gave me outputs correctly so I don't understand what they are asking me to do here any help plesse

CodeChallenge.cs 
int value = -1;
string textColor = null;

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

if (value < 0)
{
    textColor = "red";
}
else
{
    textColor = "green";
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,708 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,708 Points

Don't include assignments inside the ternary expression. Use the entire ternary as the right side of an assignment statement. A typical assignment with a ternary has this form:

  • variable = ( conditional_expression ) ? value_if_true : value_if_false ;

And be sure to remove the original "if" code when you replace it with the ternary assignment.