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Most people fluent in Flash Actionscript are familiar with unary and binary operators, but there is also a ternary operator that can be quite useful. First, a refresh on operators:
Unary: count++;
Binary: count = count * 2;
Ternary: var result:String = (count == 0) ? “Empty” : “Not Empty”);
So what does this mean? You can use the ternary form of the if statement as a shorthand. Let’s look at the equivalent full if-else statement:
var result:String;
if (count == 0) result = “Empty”;
else result = “Not Empty”;
Of course, using the ternary operator cuts down on code readability, but three lines can effectively be cut down to one. Remember, the form is this:
(condition) ? ifTrueDoThis : ifFalseDoThis;
February 9th, 2009 | Tags: Actionscript, code, conditionals, CS4, Flash, programming, ternary operations
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