how does this work?

**somebodyonearth** · March 10th, 2012, 11:22 AM

can somebody tell me how does this code work i can get it

    public static void main(String [] args) {
    	int row = 10;
    	int column ;
    	while (row >=1){
    		column=1;
    		while(column<=10){
    			System.out.print (row % 2== 1? "<" : " >");
    			++column;
    		}
    		--row;
    		System.out.println ();
    		    	}
    }

**Norm** · March 10th, 2012, 12:46 PM

Please explain what you mean by "work".
Does the code compile and execute?
What is printed out when the code is executed?

Most of the code is very simple.
What line(s) of the code are a problem for you?
Do you know about the tertiary operator? The ? and :
It is like an if else statement in a small method:
if(row %2 == 1) return "<" else return ">"

**somebodyonearth** · March 10th, 2012, 01:17 PM

yes i do but i dont get this part ( row %2==1 ) i dont understand how does it run or work

**Norm** · March 10th, 2012, 01:23 PM

% is the modulus/remainder operator.
To see how it works, write a small program with a loop and print out the values of the loop index when you use that operator. Something like this:
int var = 3;
for (int i=0;i,20;i++){
S.o.println(i %var);
}

Change the values of var to see what happens with different values

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