Single line if statement with 2 actions

Question

I'd like to do a single line if statement with more than 1 action.

Default is this:

(if) ? then : else  userType = (user.Type == 0) ? "Admin" : "User"; 

But I don't need an "else" only, I need an "else if"

like that in multi line:

if (user.Type == 0)     userType = "Admin"  else if (user.Type == 1)     userType = "User" else if (user.Type == 2)     userType = "Employee" 

Is there a possibility for that in single line?

Answer 1

Sounds like you really want a Dictionary<int, string> or possibly a switch statement...

You can do it with the conditional operator though:

userType = user.Type == 0 ? "Admin"          : user.Type == 1 ? "User"          : user.Type == 2 ? "Employee"          : "The default you didn't specify"; 

While you could put that in one line, I'd strongly urge you not to.

I would normally only do this for different conditions though - not just several different possible values, which is better handled in a map.