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The meaning of the characters "?" & ":" in for loops
May someone please advs the meaning of these characters when used in for loop(are these operators)?
Also, Pls advs what is the name of the api which explaines them? i treid looking for them in the java.lang package api, no luck.
Thank you in advance for the help.
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Re: The meaning of the characters "?" & ":" in for loops
Can you post an example? This looks like the ternary operator to me, not like a for loop.
AlonOfir (December 11th, 2013)
Re: The meaning of the characters "?" & ":" in for loops
Yes, those are operators. They are not specific to for loops (as PhHein said).
The two combined form a ternary operator (i.e. 3 parameters).
a ? b : c
How to read this:
If a is true, then evaluate b. Else, evaluate c.
Basically it condenses an if/else statement into an expression fragment.
AlonOfir (December 11th, 2013)
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