Shorthand for if-else statement

Question

I have some code with a lot of if/else statements similar to this:

var name = "true";  if (name == "true") {     var hasName = 'Y'; } else if (name == "false") {     var hasName = 'N'; }; 

But is there a way to make these statements shorter? Something like ? "true" : "false" ...

Answer 1

Using the ternary :? operator ^[spec].

var hasName = (name === 'true') ? 'Y' :'N'; 

The ternary operator lets us write shorthand if..else statements exactly like you want.

It looks like:

(name === 'true') - our condition

? - the ternary operator itself

'Y' - the result if the condition evaluates to true

'N' - the result if the condition evaluates to false

So in short (question)?(result if true):(result is false) , as you can see - it returns the value of the expression so we can simply assign it to a variable just like in the example above.